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…
Category: Misc
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….
White House asks, “Tell Us What You Think About Big Data and Privacy”
John Podesta, Counselor to the President, writes on the White House blog: In January, President Obama charged me with leading a review of big data and privacy that considers how these technologies are affecting Americans’ lives and workplaces, shaping citizens’ relationship with the government and changing the way companies do business. Since then, we have heard from…
Reverse defamation, the Newsweek Bitcoin story, and Satoshi Nakamoto
Eugene Volokh writes: A recent Newsweek story identified one Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64-year-old engineer living in Southern California, as the Satoshi Nakamoto who is said to have created Bitcoin. Dorian Nakamoto denies it, and there’s talk of a possible lawsuit. But wait — how can Dorian Nakamoto sue, if the story didn’t damage his reputation, but instead…