Category: Announcements

I don’t know Joe Cadillic can read and process so much, but bless him, he’s now added a weekly round-up of civil rights/privacy news stories to his blog, MassPrivateI.   Here’s his round-up from earlier this week, and do check his blog for his reporting on privacy and the new weekly round-up.

Maryland Law Review – Spring 2019 Symposium Truth Decay: Deep Fakes and the Implications for Privacy, National Security, and Democracy It is an age-old truism that humans lie. But now they possess the analytic skills and resources to separate fact from fiction, reality from illusion. In recent years, emerging technologies have allowed for the widespread…

Here’s hoping that 2019 will be a less stressful year than 2018 was, and that we will see better privacy protections and less tolerance for corporate misuse of our personal data. More coffee would be good, too. And for Joe Cadillic, how about less surveillance?

To those who celebrate: Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa! PogoWasRight.org and DataBreaches.net will be updated over the next few days, but perhaps not as much as I hope to take some time to enjoy family and friends.