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Online privacy’s new iconography

Online privacy’s new iconography | Higher Ed Information Security | Scoop.it
From www.salon.com - December 19, 2012 4:46 PM

"What are sites really doing with your personal data? A new visual rating system is here to help

 

The online syndicate Disconnect has joined forces with Internet nonprofit Mozilla and a team of designers to demystify web privacy for the masses. Their weapon of choice? A visual rating system that pops up in your browser bar. Since reading the fine print on how your personal information gets used is time-consuming and confusing, which is why you don’t do it. As a result, average web surfers (Hi!) has absolutely no idea what information sites are mining for, or how they use it. That’s where the icons come in."

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HE Info Sec Council's curator insight, December 19, 2012 4:46 PM

It will be interesting to see which privacy icon effort takes off.

 

ACT has recently introduced App Privacy Icons: http://actonline.org/act-blog/archives/2674.

 

And an article earlier this year highlighted a project by Yale students where they created privacy icons similar to the Creative Commons icons: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/privacy-icons-similar-to-creat.html
HE Info Sec Council's comment, December 21, 2012 2:29 PM
Here is a related article on the icons developed by Mozilla and Disconnect: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671442/a-system-of-icons-for-demystifying-online-privacy#1
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Store, Share and Connect with Your Own Private Cloud: ownCloud

Store, Share and Connect with Your Own Private Cloud: ownCloud | Higher Ed Information Security | Scoop.it
From owncloud.com - March 1, 10:38 AM

"ownCloud helps enterprises concerned about sensitive data leakage via Dropbox deliver a secure file sync and share solution on site, on their storage, integrated with their infrastructure and security systems, managed to their policies. The result is an easy-to-use solution that provides complete control over sensitive corporate data." from source: https://owncloud.com


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Robin Good's curator insight, February 25, 2:20 PM


If you are looking for a good and safe alternative to Drobox or Box.net here is one: Owncloud is an open source software which you can install on your own web server and which provides you not only with full file storage and sharing capabilties, but also with the ability to connect directly to other file storage services and to run HTML5 apps.


Excerpted from the Techcrunch review: "OwnCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net."


"The core ownCloud offering is file storage and synchronization. You also get optional contacts and calendar synchronization, if you want to use it. As an open source application, you can install it on any computer you control. This means you know how and where your data is stored, something which existing hosted solutions abstract away from you. Individuals and enterprises can install ownCloud on their own hardware, and define access policies according to their own needs."


"...the ownCloud mobile client can automatically upload pictures taken from your phone."


"...ownCloud can be connected to third-party storage like Dropbox or Google Drive or even an FTP server. These are read-write connections, allowing you to use third-party storage in whatever ways make sense for you..."


"...ownCloud supports HTML5 applications, allowing you to add all sorts of additional functionality. The ownCloud app catalog has dozens of apps."


(Source: Techcrunch)


Overview: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-overview


Download and subscriptions: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-subscriptions


Find out more: https://owncloud.com/
Steve Vaitl's curator insight, February 26, 12:19 PM

Want your own private cloud drive?
ghbrett's curator insight, February 28, 4:14 PM

This is a solution that makes a lot of sense to me. Keeping the curation and management of content locally will allow personal and enterprise installations to share content among their community. 

 

Be sure to read @RobinGoods' comments below that are much more detailed than mine.
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