It’s illegal for businesses and law enforcement to profile a person based on their race, gender, or ethnicity, yet millions of Americans are being profiled every day based on their online consumer behavior and demographics. Known as consumer profiling for behavioral advertising purposes, this type of profiling is largely unregulated. The result, according to two…
Category: Business
Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know
Emily Steel reports: Seeking to head off escalating scrutiny over Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what information those companies know about them. The project is the first of its kind in the fast-growing business of tracking Internet users and selling personal details about their…
Location matters up in the cloud – but so does integrity and politics
Michael Geist writes: … After Amazon pulled the plug, Wikileaks quickly shifted to a European host, demonstrating how easily sites can shift from one cloud provider to another. Although it seems counter-intuitive to consider the physical location of cloud computing equipment when discussing services that by their very definition operate across borders in the “cloud”,…
The Privacy Projects: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] Privacy Guidelines: Thirty Years in the Public Sector
A new report has been released by The Privacy Projects that will be of interest to some readers: At the 30th Anniversary of the OECD Privacy Guidelines, we present a comparative study of how those guidelines have influenced the development of laws, regulations and public policy in five representative OECD member states – Australia, Canada,…