Paul Ohm has an article, “Sensitive Information,” to be published in Southern California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015. Here’s the Abstract: Almost every information privacy law provides special protection for certain categories of “sensitive information,” such as health, sex, or financial information. Even though this approach is widespread, the concept of sensitive information is woefully…
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Law School’s Center for Internet and Society denies accusations that it accepts Google funds designated only for non-privacy research
Victor Xu reports: Barbara van Schewick, faculty director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS), denied accusations from a ProPublica article by Julia Angwin that Stanford accepts money from Google under the condition that it not be used for privacy research. “The ProPublica story is inaccurate and we have notified the reporters of this fact,”…
Tell Governor Brown: No Warrantless Drones For California Cops
Parker Higgins of EFF writes: An important California bill that would require warrants for law enforcement use of drones is currently sitting on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk. Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee that Gov. Brown will sign AB 1327, which passed the California legislature this August. EFF has long held that a warrant requirement is an essential…
Why big data evangelists should be sent to re-education camps
Stilgherrian writes: The last time I wrote about big data, in July, I called it a big, distracting bubble. But it’s worse than that. Big data is an ideology. A religion. One of its most important gospels is, of course, at Wired. In 2008, Chris Anderson talked up a thing called The Petabyte Age in The End…