Kathleen Styles, the Chief Privacy Officer at the U.S. Department of Education, writes: Protecting students’ privacy and ensuring colleges and universities promote a safe and healthy campus for their students has never been more important. As Chief Privacy Officer at ED, I help to lead the Department of Education in overseeing the administration of FERPA…
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Why I’ve stopped caring about what the public thinks about privacy
Simon Davies writes: There’s no elegant way to express the following idea, but here goes anyway. To put it bluntly, I’ve stopped worrying about whether the public cares about privacy – and I believe privacy advocates should stop worrying about it too. Read more on The Privacy Surgeon. Of course, some of us stopped caring…
We’ll see you, anon
More on the risks of identification and re-identification in large databases, from The Economist: Frequent visitors to the Hustler Club, a gentlemen’s entertainment venue in New York, could not have known that they would become part of a debate about anonymity in the era of “big data”. But when, for sport, a data scientist called Anthony…
Consumers need a new legal right to control personal data (Op-Ed)
James B. Rule, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley and the author of “Privacy in Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience,” has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times today. He writes, in part: The privacy-eroding forces at…