Tim Hornyak reports: If snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency isn’t enough to make you worry about your privacy, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a fast method to perform secret searches of data that is encrypted. The technology makes use of homomorphic encryption, which allows for operations to be performed on encrypted data without having…
Category: Misc
10 Reasons Why Privacy Matters
Daniel Solove writes: Why does privacy matter? Often courts and commentators struggle to articulate why privacy is valuable. They see privacy violations as often slight annoyances. But privacy matters a lot more than that. Here are 10 reasons why privacy matters. Read Dan’s reasons in this LinkedIn post. Is there anything you’d add to his…
“Mr. Wemmick’s Condition; Or, Privacy as a Disposition, Complete with Skeptical Observations Regarding Various Regulatory Enthusiasms.”
Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare introduces a paper by Joel Brenner that sounds like an article to add to my must-read list: The War on Law Reviews continues on many fronts: land, sea, air, and particularly in the cyber domain, where today I am pleased to offer the next paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Joel Brenner’s “Mr….
2013 a big year for privacy? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
Phil Lee writes: If you thought that 2013 was a big year for privacy, then prepare yourself: it was only the beginning. Many of the privacy stories whose winding narratives began in 2013 will continue to take unexpected twists and turns throughout 2014, with several poised to reach dramatic conclusions – or otherwise spawn spin-offs…