Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene, and Christopher Wolf write: In his recent remarks on the NSA and surveillance, President Barack Obama grabbed the Big Data bull by the horns. We commend the president’s decision to task the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to reach out to privacy experts, technologists and business leaders to examine the challenges inherent…
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Norwegian MPs Nominate Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize
RT reports: Edward Snowden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian lawmakers, who say the NSA whistleblower contributed to “transparency and global stability” by revealing the depth and sophistication of the global surveillance apparatus. Snorre Valen and Baard Vegar Solhjell, parliamentarians from Norway’s Socialist Left Party, announced the nomination on Facebook on Wednesday….
Articles – Big Data and Privacy: Making Ends Meet
The Future of Privacy Forum and Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society have released a collection of papers (pdf) on Big Data and Privacy. Here’s the Table of Contents: Privacy & Big Data: Making Ends Meet Jules Polonetsky & Omer Tene ……………………………………………………………………………1 S-M-L-XL Data: Big Data as a New Informational Privacy Paradigm Michael…
Data Privacy Means Data Security (and not Data Retention)
Danny O’Brien of EFF wrote: Today is Data Privacy Day (also known as Data Protection Day), an international festival of our right to control our own personal information and to protect our communications from unchecked surveillance. […] We need to also make sure that politicians don’t increase the vulnerability of our data by increasing the amount of…