Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
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,…
Post by: Diana Ajuria http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/technology/consumer-data-protection-laws-an-ocean-apart.html?_r=0 This article, Consumer Data Protection Laws, an Ocean Apart, posted February 2, 2013 in the New York Times is focused on the differences between the…
Post by: Abigail Augus Regulating the collection and use of personal information though tort or contract is problematic for a host of reasons and may not provide companies with sufficient…
Every Move You Make By Jesse C. Glickenhaus February 7, 2013 Artist Pierre Derks' installation in the Hague showing rotating live streaming images—a baby in a crib, a security feed…
Privacy Blog Post- Kenneth Villa Path Settles With FTC Over Privacy Row-Will Pay $800K And Establish New Privacy Program Including Outside Audits Tech Crunch http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/01/path-settles-with-ftc-over-privacy-row-will-pay-800k-and-establish-new-privacy-program-including-outside-audits/ Business Week http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/420272?type=bloomberg Path, a…
http://www.futureofprivacy.org/call-for-papers-big-data-and-privacy-making-ends-meet/ The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) invite authors to submit papers discussing the legal, technological, social, and policy implications of…
A colleague from the NYU Information Law Institute pointed me to a recent study and news article that examines the degree to which Google's Ad Sense displays differential ads according…
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…
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…
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%…