Marc Lifsher reports: California regulators decided Thursday not to consider the need for tougher privacy protection for smartphone users. In a 3-2 vote, the Public Utilities Commission denied a petition from consumer groups asking it to investigate the need for stronger privacy standards. It would have been the PUC’s first attempt to update 2-decade-old phone…
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Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference
You are kindly invited to the seventh edition of the ‘Computers, Privacy & Data Protection’ (CPDP) conference, to be held on 22-24 January 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will include panels covering all current debates in the field: the data protection reform in the European Union, PRISM, big data, privacy by design, cloud computing,…
Reminder! New Frontiers of Privacy Harm conference tomorrow – be there or watch it.
Reminder of an event tomorrow: New Frontiers of Privacy Harm. Schedule and click to livestream here.
Maintenance note
I’ve been informed that tonight (Thursday), my web host will be performing a server update, and that my sites may be unavailable at some point. They anticipate the outage to be 15-30 minutes. Based on past experiences, if I’m not back online by tomorrow noon, send coffee….