Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Michael Degusta has a wonderful blog post up about the history of missing software updates for Android smartphones, compared to Apple's iPhone. A sample: In this chart, green blocks represent…
Similar story to Verizon is coming up.. (Taken from Slashdot. Source: Mastercard, Visa to help Target Ads) "The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into…
From TalkingPointsMemo: "Feds To Monitor Google’s Privacy Practices For Next 20 Years Sarah Lai Stirland October 24, 2011, 4:10 PM 942 5 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday finalized…
The WSJ just blogged about a recent internet privacy study implicating several high-traffic sites of selling user information to third party SEO companies. Sites include OKCupid!, RottenTomatoes, and yes, the…
CSCW Workshop: Reconciling Privacy with Social Media February 12, 2012 Full Details: http://phitlab.host22.com/cscw2012privacyworkshop.html Call for Participation Much research on privacy in social media has focused on limiting personal information disclosure,…
from Joe Lorenzo Hall Twitter starts wrapping all hyperlinks through t.co http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/10/twitter-url-wrapping/ "Twitter has various reason for forcing all hyperlinks through t.co. It eliminates the security risk posed by third-party…
This summer Ayenson, Wambach, Soltani, Good and Hoofnagle and published "Flash cookies and privacy II" on SSRN. The paper describes a number of technical mechanisms for persistent tracking of consumers.…
by Helen Nissenbaum Over the weekend, I received this message from Verizon. Naturally, it caused me great consternation though, for the life of me, I could not figure out what…
Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with a program called Future…