Healthcare IT News reports that VeriChip Corporation is supporting the Pennsylvania bill that would ban the forced implantation of identification devices in people (see previous coverage here). The bill, which passed the House, has yet to go to the state Senate. “In general, we are supportive of legislation that prohibits forced implants,” said Silverman. “VeriChip,…
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What does “sensitive data” mean?
Douglas MacMillan blogs about the definition of “sensitive data” over on BusinessWeek. As pointed out previously, at least some privacy advocates have noted that the online behavioral advertising industry’s proposal for self-regulation does not go far enough in restricting what types of information would not be collected and used. The definition in the self-regulatory program…
The SSN Study: Now What?
Since yesterday, when Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross of Carnegie Mellon University released a study demonstrating that it is relatively easy to predict an individual’s Social Security Number (SSN) using data from readily available public records, the security world has been buzzing. As someone who was given a draft copy of the paper to read…
Self-Regulatory Proposal: Faint Praise, Criticisms
There has been relatively little reaction from the privacy community since a consortium of major players in online behavioral advertising led by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) issued a proposal for self-regulation last week. But Ryan Calo of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society has turned his lawyerly eye to the proposal…