Karl Bode reports: As companies expand the amount of data hoovered up via their subscribers, a common refrain to try and ease public worry is that consumers shouldn’t worry because this data is “anonymized.” However, time and time again studies have highlighted how it’s not particularly difficult to tie these data sets to consumer identities…
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2015 Privacy Research Symposium to be Held February 26 in Ottawa
From the OPC, this announcement: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has awarded funding to The Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS) to organize and host the third Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium. The theme of the CLTS event will be “A Return to First Principles for Privacy at the Cutting-Edge,” and…
Fordham University’s Center on Law and Information Policy Publishes Privacy Handbook for Student Information Online: A Toolkit for Schools and Parents
This looks like a great – and free – resource! Fordham University School of Law Center on Law and Information Policy is pleased to announce the publication of the Privacy Handbook for Student Information Online: A Toolkit for Schools and Parents, which is designed to provide materials that offer tools for school administrators, teachers and parents so…
Privacy is following chivalry to the grave. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
Or so Dominic Basulto tries to argue, seemingly ignoring masterful pieces like Neil Richard’s arguments as to the importance of privacy for intellectual thought, and oh, a host of other reasons privacy still is – and will continue to be – important. You can read his opinion piece on Washington Post.