Cory Doctorow writes: Sonia Livingstone, an LSE social psychology prof, gives us a peek into the results from The Class, a year-long, deep research project into the digital lives and habits of a class of 13 year olds at an ordinary school. Livingstone and her research partner, Julian Sefton-Green, published their findings in a book from…
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There Is No Such Thing as “Public” Data
Bravo to now-tenured law prof Woodrow Hartzog for this great piece on Slate. It begins: Are you an OkCupid user? Would you consider the data on your profile public—fair game for anyone to download and share with the rest of the world? That’s the argument made by a group of Danish researchers who released a data seton nearly…
Google appeals French order for global ‘right to be forgotten’
Julia Fioretti reports: Alphabet Inc’s Google appealed on Thursday an order from the French data protection authority to remove certain web search results globally in response to a European privacy ruling, escalating a fight on the territorial reach of EU law. […] “As a matter of both law and principle, we disagree with this demand,”…
GAFE: UC students suit claims Google scanned accounts without permission
Ethan Baron reports: Legal action against Google by four UC Berkeley students has ballooned into two lawsuits by 890 U.S. college students and alumni alleging the firm harvested their data for commercial gain without their consent. But the students’ claims may be derailed by a dispute over whether they should file their cases individually, rather…