Obama campaign gives doner/voter PII away
While most US states have laws regarding the *unauthorized* disclosure of personal information, there aren't so many regarding the *voluntary* disclosure of the data -- as in this story below…
Continuing saga of Instagram
A real consequence of Instagram's data sharing policy debacle (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/578/) is that, according to AppStats, the company has lost almost half of its users. http://appstats.eu/apps/facebook/1003873-instagram . Yikes! The company also appears…
Google’s Transparency Report
A recent Guardian (UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/23/google-transparency-report-government-data-privacy?INTCMP=SRCH) article discusses a recent Google transparency report in which google discloses the numbers of government requests for data. Of the 8438 requests (from 6/12-12/12), 68%…
Comment on “Fudging the Nudge”
Daniel Ho (http://www.law.stanford.edu/node/166494) recently posted a new paper on information disclosure and restaurant grading: Fudging the Nudge: Information Disclosure and Restaurant Grading, http://yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal/article/fudging-the-nudge:-information-disclosure-and-restaurant-grading/ . Here's the abstract: "One of the most…
Continuing discussion on mobile app privacy (NTIA)
I attended a recent discussion hosted by the NITA (dept of commerce) which is a continuing effort to develop a set of best practices for mobile app developers regarding the…
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FTC is also interested in knowing what firms know about us
As a follow-up to a previous PRG post from a couple of months ago (http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/privacyresearchgroup/2012/10/you-know-what-id-like-to-learn-whats-being-collected-about-me-too/), the FTC is now also investigating the role that data brokers play in the collection,…