Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
First Alexa, Now Fox! From valuable personal assistant to home and outdoor external spy… By: Annabelle Divoy Why open a dictionary when you can ask Alexa the height of Mount…
Privacy Blog Assignment - Pannel 6 By: Ricardo Leite Ribeiro The article which I am providing the link here was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 2, 2016.…
Panel 5 Pierre-Paul’s Medical Disclosure Claim Against ESPN: Issues of Intersecting Privacy Torts. By: Eliza Marshall The New York Giants’ Jean Pierre-Paul’s suit against ESPN, which pertains to ESPN’s publication…
Privacy Blog (1) By: Maggie Kornreich Professor Rubinstein March 24, 2014 http://www.natlawreview.com/article/health-apps-and-hipaa-ocr-publishes-new-guidance-health-app-developers This article addresses whether mobile device applications are subject to HIPAA regulations. In February, the Department of Health…
Information Privacy: Blog Post (Panel 6) By:Harry Grabow http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/10/business/new-frontier-voter-tracking http://fusion.net/story/268108/dstillery-clever-tracking-trick/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/08/company-tracked-iowa-caucusgoers-phones/80005966/ In the first United States Presidential campaign since the 2013 Snowden, candidates have expressed varying opinions of both the…
PRG long-time participant Luke Stark's research on emotion has been published in Information Society: https://starkcontrastdotco.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/01972243-2015.pdf DOJ postpones hearing on Apple case: http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/doj-court-hearing-apple-postpone/ Utah tests online voting in state caucus: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/22/471474745/utah-republicans-to-test-online-voting-in-states-caucus
Privacy Blog By: Mary Churan Huang http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-eu-s-data-protection-authorities-have-absolute-focus-on-privacy-1.2556597 This article discusses the positions taken by some of the world’s largest multinational companies in respect of the EU’s incoming General Data Protection…
A Consumer Privacy Legislation? A Highly Debated Proposal since 2012 By: Ida Faustine Jacotey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/technology/obamas-effort-on-consumer-privacy-falls-short-critics-say.html In February 2012, the White House, released “A framework for protecting Privacy and promoting innovation…
Dstillery Tracked 16,000 Iowa Caucus-goers via their phones: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dstillery-iowa-caucus_us_56c12cafe4b08ffac125b591 Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust enforcement in Germany: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/02/facebook-faces-german-antitrust-privacy-probe/ FCC Settles with Verizon over super cookies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-pay-1-35m-to-settle-fcc-probe-of-supercookies-1457372226
On Monday, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield, and replace the former Safe Harbour framework. The Privacy Shield will not…