Wired has an interview with Lorrie Faith Cranor that begins: What does privacy mean to you? I view privacy as very much something about control over personal information. That lens of control makes sense to me, and we each have different views on what we want to keep private and what we want to share….
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Event Today: Solving Privacy Around the World (livestreamed)
Fordham Law Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) Ninth Law and Information Society Symposium. Trends in the global processing of data, developments in new technologies, privacy enforcement actions and government surveillance put international privacy at the center of the global law and policy agenda. Government regulators, policymakers, legal experts, and industry players need to…
Tracing Some of Big Data’s Big Paradoxes
Randy Bean reports: I recently attended a talk on the topic of intellectual privacy by Neil M. Richards, Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of the recently published book, Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press). The underlying message of his talk was bracing and cautionary. Privacy breaches,…
Microbiomes raise privacy concerns
Ellen Callaway reports: Call it a ‘gut print’. The collective DNA of the microbes that colonize a human body can uniquely identify someone, researchers have found, raising privacy issues. The finding1, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 11 May, suggests that it might be possible to identify a participant in an anonymous study of…