PRG News Roundup Oct. 2, 2019
Apply to We Robot 2020 by October 7! Andrew Yang suggested treating data as a property right and included rights such as the right to be forgotten (Forbes). Facebook has…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 25, 2019
A recent BuzzFeed News story demonstrated the relative ease with which people can be tracked around New York City, through a cross reference of public cameras accessed via EarthCam and Instagram stories geotagged to…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 18, 2019
Cell-site location information (CSLI), which is often used as evidence in court to connect suspects to crime, has come under more scrutiny after it was revealed that incorrect data may…
PRG News Roundup: Oct. 24
PRG News Round Up - October 24 Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner of Ontario and key developer of the Privacy by Design movement, resigned from Sidewalk Labs. Cavoukian…
PRG News Roundup: Oct 10, 2018
The Machine Learning algorithms Amazon has been using to screen applicant’s resumes generated gender biases. This is the most recent in a line of cases of algorithm generated…
PRG News Roundup: Oct. 3
Tim Berners-Lee and John Bruce founded the start-up Interrupt and are working on Solid, a web project designed to decentralize data ownership (The Inquirer). Facebook was hacked through their “View…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 26, 2018
Uber agreed to pay $148 million in settlement for 2016 data breach (Washington Post). French data protection authority issued some of the first formal guidance on blockchain and the…
PRG News Roundup: April 18
A little-known data firm that created 48 million user profiles by scraping data from sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Zillow had been storing its profiles on Amazon cloud storage without…
PRG News Roundup: April 4
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision in Sandvig v. Sessions. The case pitted the First Amendment against data privacy concerns, and the decision has…
PRG News Roundup: Jan. 24
The United States Department of Education issued a letter to Agora Charter Schools telling them that they cannot require parents to use an online service that would require them to…