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 MoreAverage 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 MoreTechnology Policy Institute Tackles Big Data
A recent paper by the Technology Policy Institute takes a pro-business look at the Big Data phenomenon, finding “no evidence” that Big Data is creating...
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 MoreThe Supreme Court's Say on Surveillance?
Big national security news yesterday: a federal court judge has ruled that the NSA’s Section 215 metadata collection program is an unconstitutional violation of...
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 MoreSen. Markey's Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act Summarized
On Monday, Sen. Markey introduced legislation designed to expand legal safeguards to protect individual privacy from invasion by commercial and government use of drones....
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