Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Andrew Chiusano DHS monitoring of social media concerns civil liberties advocates Advertisers and corporations are not the only ones mining data from social media sites. The Department of Homeland Security…
Joe Hall here. Google appears to be trying to better measure household and end-user internet traffic, similar to how Nielsen measures cable and television watching habits ("Google Screenwise: New Program…
Google has a new ad campaign in the NY subways! "You live in Peoria. Do you really need a plumber from New York? We didn’t think so. Imagine the…
This is what the Google-FTC consent decree says about changing it sharing practices: II. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that respondent, prior to any new or additional sharing by respondent of…
J.D. Bean Proposed Amendment to the Privacy Act: The Privacy Act Modernization for the Information Age Act of 2011 - Introduced October 18th, 2011 by Senator Daniel K. Akaka chairman of the…
Vladimir Andric http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/technology/as-patient-records-are-digitized-data-breaches-are-on-the-rise.html?_r=1&ref=identitytheft Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches Another article confirming the "stick with it like glue" as the major security principle when it…
Eleni Gessiou Lately, Google advertises its logo about the new privacy policy "One policy, one Google experience"! So, I spent some time reading the overview and searching (in Google…
Josh Perles Proposed EU Data-Privacy Rules Require Breach Disclosure within 24 Hours Part of a comprehensive suite of data-privacy reforms, the proposed rules would require any firm with…
Caitlin Urbach Privacy of Financial Data News: International Accounts, Voluntary Disclosure, and Privacy The IRS announced on January 9, 2012 that it was instituting another voluntary disclosure program for those…
The ninth Hackers On Planet Earth conference will take place in New York on July 13-15, 2012. Organizers have issued a call for speakers on a wide variety of topics,…