Elizabeth Joh has an article in Washington Law Review that begins: The age of “big data” has come to policing. In Chicago, police officers are paying particular attention to members of a “heat list”: those identified by a risk analysis as most likely to be involved in future violence.1 In Charlotte, North Carolina, the police have…
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Article: The Fourth Amendment and the Global Internet – Kerr
Orin Kerr has an upcoming article in the Stanford Law Review that is available for download on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This article considers how Fourth Amendment law should adapt to the increasingly worldwide nature of Internet surveillance. It focuses on two types of problems not yet addressed by courts. First, the Supreme Court’s decision in United…
NZ: Privacy Week 2014 is May 4 – May 10
The Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand’s site has this note about Privacy Week 2014: A half-day forum in Wellington on Wednesday 7 May will be the main event for Privacy Week 2014. A full programme of speakers is currently being finalised. The Privacy Commissioner’s other events will include the launch of our latest survey results on attitudes…
Don’t Let Personal Data Escape Your Smartphone
Two EPFL researchers have developed an intelligent application that, once past the beginning machine learning stage, decides for the user what information to transmit or not, and at what level of detail. A large-scale Android OS trial is scheduled for late summer 2014 to provide real data to validate the approach and refine the tool….