Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security Statement by the Global Commission on Internet Governance From the Executive Summary: The Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) was established in January 2014 to articulate and advance a strategic vision for the future of Internet governance. In recent deliberations, the Commission discussed the potential for a damaging…
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Reclaim Control of Your Online Identity With Do Not Track
From the National Film Board of Canada (NFB): An eye-opening personalized look at how online data is being tracked and sold. Starting April 14, the online interactive documentary series Do Not Track will show you just how much the web knows about you―and the results may astonish you. Conceived and directed by acclaimed Canadian documentary filmmaker and…
Data Protection courses in Latin America (Colombia, Argentina and Chile)
Pablo Palazzi writes that providing data protection courses in law school is a growing trend in Latin America. Of note, In Chile there is a seminar taking place on April 22 and 23 in the School of Law of University of Chile, in Santiago (Chile). This year I will be teaching for the first time a data…
Why the War on Drugs is So Bad For Privacy
Jay Stanley of the ACLU writes: In 2011, for the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s declaration of America’s “War on Drugs,” I wrote a roundup of some of the ways in which the War on Drugs has eroded privacy. Yesterday’s news about the DEA’s enormous program to collect Americans’ call records is a hell of an addition to the…