Éloïse Gratton writes: The Economist published a great piece on behavioral advertising today: “Getting to know you: Everything people do online is avidly followed by advertisers and third-party trackers”. The article discusses the fact that gathering information about users and grouping them into sellable “segments” has become important for the $120 billion online advertising economy. The article raises an…
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For Sale Soon: The World’s First Google Glass Detector
Andy Greenberg reports: Earlier this summer, Berlin-based artist and coder Julian Oliver released Glasshole.sh, a simple and free piece of software designed to detect Google Glass and boot it from any local Wi-Fi network. That DIY idea, says Oliver, was so popular among Glass’s critics that he’s now offering his cyborg-foiling hack to the masses in…
Brennan Center Urges Series of Reforms to Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
From the Brennan Center for Justice: The Brennan Center for Justice submitted comments on the mid-term and long-term agenda of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), recommending that the Board focus on four issues: 1) the FBI’s authorities under the Attorney General’s Guidelines, 2) fusion centers and Suspicious Activity Reporting, 3) the NSA’s…
The Potemkinism of Privacy Pragmatism
Chris Hoofnagle writes: A revolution is afoot in privacy regulation. In an assortment of white papers and articles, business leaders—including Microsoft—and scholars argue that instead of regulating privacy through limiting the collection of data, we should focus on how the information is used. It’s called “use regulation,” and this seemingly obscure issue has tremendous implications…