Bring on the Privacy-Arms Race!
Yoav Simchoni Vertically-integrated tech companies compete vigorously across multiple product lines to try and capture market share. A large part of this competition revolves around marketing and branding campaigns,…
Netflix Privacy Violation Lawsuit
Alina Mejer http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57377084-93/netflix-pays-$9-million-to-settle-privacy-violation-lawsuit/ In keeping with this week’s discussion about statutes that regulate commercial entities’ use of personal data, this recent article about Netflix highlighted how consumers can…
FTC Cracks Down on Mobile Applications and Coppa Violations
Anisha Mehta Earlier this month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached an $800,000 settlement with Path for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa). The Act regulates…
EU vs US Data Protection
Johnston Chen http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/technology/eu-privacy-proposal-lays-bare-differences-with-us.html?_r=0 In January, the United States government and Silicon Valley lobbied against European efforts to increase consumer information privacy law in the European Union. At that time,…
Leave my e-mail alone!
Catalina Carmona For quite some time now, both industry and privacy advocates have pointed out the need of reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The main argument is…
Mistakes By Credit Reporting Agencies
Zachary King This past Sunday 60 Minutes aired a report about the enormous amount of mistakes made by credit reporting agencies. (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57567957/40-million-mistakes-is-your-credit-report-accurate/). In the report Steve Kroft cites…
Understanding Facebook Privacy
Jessica Heimler http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/technology/personaltech/protecting-your-privacy-on-the-new-facebook.html?smid=tw-nytimes With Facebook consistently rolling out new features and subsequent privacy settings, many people may be unaware as to how to best protect their online information.…
US Interests behind proposed amendments to the EU’s planned General Data Protection Regulation.
Akiva Miller The approaches to privacy regulation taken by Europe and the United States are often seen as being at odds with one another. The European regulatory scheme is characterized as…
FTC uses the Fair Credit Reporting Act to protect social media users
Peter Kauffman http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/technology/ftc-levies-first-fine-over-internet-data.html Last June, the Federal Trade Commission assessed an $800,000 penalty on Spokeo, a data collection agency, for distributing personal information as a way for potential employers…
Everyone can now mine open sources and social network information (but the government may have a new too for doing it too).
Posted by: Akiva Miller It was recently published that defense giant Raytheon has developed a system called "Rapid Information Overlay Technology" (RIOT), designed to powerfully mine information from social networks,…