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…
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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…
Sensors everywhere could mean privacy nowhere, expert says
Steve Tally writes: Just as we are coming to grips with having less privacy in our lives thanks to the Internet, a new use of the technology is poised to present new questions about security and privacy – and create a new threat to society. Eugene Spafford, professor of computer science at Purdue University and…
Big Data Analysis is Possible Without Infringing Key Privacy Principles, Says International Working Group
Monika Kuschewsky writes: “Data is everywhere. The amount of data on the global level is growing by 50 percent annually. 90 [percent] of the world’s data has been generated within the past two years alone,” explains the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications in their Opinion of May 6, 2014, titled, “Working Paper on Big Data and Privacy:…