Roberta Rampton reports: The White House released draft legislation on Friday that would give consumers more control over how the trail of data they leave behind them on the internet is used, stored and sold. The 24-page “discussion draft” on data privacy immediately sparked sharp reaction from the technology industry, which said the proposal would…
Category: Misc
We might be in a bit of a #gemalto
Daragh O’Brien has a blog post on the Gemalto security mess and what the responsibility of Irish telcos might be, as he understands it: My view is that telcos in Ireland, and potentially other EU countries, would need to inform their customers, and telcos should ideally be looking for a solution to reinstate the security…
Global Regulation of Data Flows in a Post-Snowden World
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill covered a lot of ground in her speech at the Tuck School of Business, Darthmouth College. You can read her statement here (pdf).
Yet Another Report Showing ‘Anonymous’ Data Not At All Anonymous
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…