Some recent articles on privacy and surveillance, available on SSRN, that you may want to add to your to-read list: Three Paradoxes of Big Data Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law Jonathan H. King Washington University in Saint Louis September 3, 2013 66 Stanford Law Review Online 41 (2013)…
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Q&A: Privacy implications for aerial drones
D. Parvaz interviewed Woodrow Hartzog during the recent Drones and Aerial Robotics conference. Here’s a snippet from the interview: Woodrow Hartzog: There’s a fair amount of hand-wringing over drones and privacy, but I think in many instances it’s often dismissed because drones fly in public and they fly in public spaces and the law, as it’s…
Hospital Trustees May Sue Over Trustee’s Refusal to Provide His Social Security Number
There’s a somewhat bizarre case brewing in Montrose County, Colorado, where a Montrose Memorial Hospital trustee has refused to provide his Social Security number for a background check. He claims he’s under no obligation to, but the hospital board of trustees says the hospital stands to lose its status as an eligible Medicaid and Medicare provider if…
EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative
EFF issued the following press release yesterday: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today withdrew from the Global Network Initiative (GNI), citing a fundamental breakdown in confidence that the group’s corporate members are able to speak freely about their own internal privacy and security systems in the wake of the National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance revelations. EFF has been…