Nicole Neily of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity has an OpEd on the OC Register that begins: California Attorney General Kamala Harris has staked much of her political identity on a crusade against so-called “dark money” in politics. For several years, Harris, who is running to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate,…
Category: Misc
A Camera in My Shower? Fine
Susan Hennessey writes: During the recent panel event at the Hoover Institution on using data to protect privacy, I had an interesting exchange with Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law, which I’ve been mulling over ever since. I had made the argument that, in discussing information sharing and privacy, it is important to differentiate between different types of…
UK: The Angela Wrightson case and youth anonymity in the media
Sam Brookman writes: The Angela Wrightson case has not been far from the headlines in the last few weeks. Two teenage girls, both now 15 years old, have been convicted and sentenced for her brutal murder. Last week, our law column covered the issue of contempt and the reporting restriction which prevented media organisations from…
Article: Linking Users Across Domains with Location Data: Theory and Validation
Chris Riederer, Yunsung Kim, and Augustin Chaintreau of Columbia University, and Nitish Korula, and Silvio Lattanzi of Google Research have published an article. Here’s the abstract: Linking accounts of the same user across datasets – even when personally identifying information is removed or unavailable – is an important open problem studied in many contexts. Beyond…