Average Folks and Retailer Tracking
Yesterday evening, I found myself at the Mansion on O Street, whose eccentric interior filled with hidden doors, secret passages, and bizarrely themed rooms, seemed...
Read MoreRecapping 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...
Read MoreFuture 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...
Read MoreBuying 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....
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