Highlights from a new GAO report: What GAO Found Facial recognition technology can be used in numerous consumer and business applications, but the extent of its current use in commercial settings is not fully known. The technology is commonly used in software that manages personal photographs and in social networking applications to identify friends. In…
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Article: Competition, Consumer Protection, and The Right [Approach] to Privacy
By Maureen K. Ohlhausen and Alexander Okuliar in Antitrust Law Journal No. 1 (2015) Abstract: Many people view Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s 1890 work, The Right to Privacy, as the starting point for the consumer privacy laws in the United States. Warren and Brandeis’s concerns about the ability of technology to invade the private…
ProxyHam project cancelled – but why?
Well, it looks like Steve Ragan’s censorship antennae are working just fine. Andy Greenberg reports: FOR THOSE SEEKING stealth and anonymity online, a radio device known as ProxyHam was a highly anticipated new tool set to debut at the DefCon hacker conference next month. Now it’s just staged its own disappearing act. Late Friday, the Twitter…
Article: Industry Self Regulation of Data Privacy and Security
Jeff Sovern writes on Public Citizen: Siona Robin Listokin of George Mason’s School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs has written Industry Self Regulation of Data Privacy and Security. Here is the abstract: Industry self-regulation of consumer data privacy and security has been proposed as a flexible alternative and compliment to traditional government regulation. This study analyzes…