Via Ryan Tate of The Intercept. Enjoy.
Category: Misc
Information Accountability Foundation Releases a Unified Ethical Frame for Big Data Analysis
Martin Abrams writes: The Foundation has released the first paper from its Big Data Ethics Project. The project’s purpose is to establish tools for both companies and enforcement agencies to assure people get the benefits of big data but are not boxed in by inappropriate analysis or application. Part A of the project establishes the…
Librarians won’t stay quiet about government surveillance
Andrea Peterson reports: In September 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft called out the librarians. The American Library Association and civil liberties groups, he said, were pushing “baseless hysteria” about the controversial Patriot Act. He suggested that they were worried that spy agencies wanted to know “how far you have gotten on the latest Tom Clancy novel.”…
Londoners give up eldest children in public Wi-Fi security horror show
Tom Fox-Brewster reports: A handful of Londoners in some of the capital’s busiest districts unwittingly agreed to give up their eldest child, during an experiment exploring the dangers of public Wi-Fi use. The experiment, which was backed by European law enforcement agency Europol, involved a group of security researchers setting up a Wi-Fi hotspot in…