Ari Waldman is guest-blogging on Concurring Opinions. By way of introduction, he writes: It is always a pleasure to join the Concurring Opinions community, one that I find supportive and tough, insightful and witty. I hope to contribute to ongoing discussions, raise a few eyebrows and bring some new perspective to issues of great concern…
Category: Misc
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published a Symposium of articles entitled Privacy and Big Data.
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published a Symposium of articles entitled Privacy and Big Data. Here are the contents: Privacy and Big Data by Jules Polonetsky & Omer Tene It’s Not Privacy, and It’s Not Fair by Cynthia Dwork & Deirdre K. Mulligan Three Paradoxes of Big Data by Neil M. Richards & Jonathan H. King…
Stork arrested in Egypt on suspicion of spying
In this day and age, suspicion runs rampant. It seems a stork with a wildlife tracking device on its back was detained in a police station in Cairo for fear it was a spy.
Boffins follow TOR breadcrumbs to identify users
Richard Chirgwin reports: It’s easier to identify TOR users than they believe, according to research published by a group of researchers from Georgetown University and the US Naval Research Laboratory (USNRL). Their paper, Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries, is to be presented in November at November’s Conference on Computer and Communications…