Paris Martineau reports: It’s Thursday afternoon,and I’m on the eighth floor of a nondescript building in the Flatiron District, sitting across from Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley. He pulls out his phone to show me an unreleased, nameless game that he and his skunkworks-style team Foursquare Labs have been working on. Think “Candyland,” but instead of…
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Data privacy, right-to-delete rules pass Washington Senate
Tom James reports: The Washington Senate has passed a broad package of data privacy protections, including rules that would give consumers the right to delete data about them held by private companies. The measure would require businesses or other entities that control or process the identifiable data of more than 100,000 people to allow consumers…
One student aims to change U’s data privacy policy
From the somebody-please-clone-this-kid-and-put-him-in-charge dept: Niamh Coomey reports: Second-year student Sina Roughani hoped to impress his crush last year with an atypical birthday gift — improving University of Minnesota’s student data privacy policy. The electrical engineering student devoted much of his first semester at the University in 2017 to advocating for a change in the student records…
Nicky Hager settles charges against Westpac in significant NZ privacy case
Over the past five years, I’ve posted a number of stories concerning the illegal surveillance of journalist Nicky Hager and Hager’s attempts to hold the government accountable. I have nothing but respect for him for pushing back against illegal surveillance. Some of the significant aspects of his case arose from an illegal raid in 2014…