Eric Zeman reports: The state of Iowa wants to pave its own path to the mobile future — but it could find itself in a legal quagmire along the way. This week, Iowa’s head of transportation proposed that next year the state release a smartphone application that residents can use as their state-issued photo ID,…
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The limits of hacker activism: if you really want to change the world, you need not to be Anonymous
Helen Lewis writes: … What happened with Sabu goes to the heart of an idea explored by Malcolm Gladwell in his influential New Yorker essay “Small Change”, which carried the provocative strapline “The revolution will not be tweeted”. Gladwell describes the sit-in protests in America of the 1960s. He notes that participation in the civil rights movement…
Solove & Schwartz: Privacy and Security Developments 2014 Issue 1
Daniel Solove and Paul M. Schwartz write: We spend a lot of time staying up to date so we can update our casebooks and reference books, so we thought we would share with you some of the interesting news and resources we’re finding. We plan to post a series of posts like this one throughout the year. What…
Ten Ways the 2014 Election May Affect Privacy and Data Security Law
Jeff Kosseff writes: When Republicans take over the Senate in January, new leaders will control key committees that oversee privacy and data security issues, and their priorities will differ significantly from those of their predecessors. Privacy issues, however, generally tend not to break neatly along party lines and there will remain bipartisan support – and…