Recapping EPIC's Failing the Grade Educational Privacy Event
The arrival of new technologies in the field of education, from connected devices, student longitudinal data systems, and massive open online courses (MOOCs) present...
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Joe Jerome
Future of Privacy Forum Releases US-EU Safe Harbor Report
Today, some four months after we first announced it, my organization put out our Safe Harbor Report on the effectiveness of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor...
Read MoreEphemeral Communication and the Frankly App Podcast
My former coworker was utterly enamored with Snapchat, on the grounds that she liked being able to express herself in ways that were not...
Read MoreIdealism Lost: From The West Wing to Scandal
Televised depictions of the cities in which I’ve lived have always captured my imagination — Law & Order gave me a taste of New York City...
Read MoreGovernment Shutdown and Collapse: A Constitutional Crisis Caused by Rural America
As this government shutdown has come to absorb not merely the day-to-day functioning of government but also our national health care policy and the...
Read MoreWhose Hypothetical Horribles?
Released last fall, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt’s The Human Face of Big Data is a gorgeous, coffee table book that details page after...
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Buying and Selling Privacy Essay Published by Stanford Law Review Online
My essay on how “Big Data” is transforming our notions of individual privacy in unequal ways has been published by the Stanford Law Review Online....
Read MoreBecause Everyone Needs Facebook
Facebook has rolled out several proposed updates to its privacy policy that ultimately gives Facebook even more control over its users information. Coming on...
Read MoreFraming Big Data Debates
If finding the proper balance between privacy risks and Big Data rewards is the big public policy challenge of the day, we can start...
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