Ryan Calo writes: “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed. Joseph Heller was writing about crazy times. The setting is World War II and flying dangerous missions over Europe has taken its toll on American pilots. Many are so compromised psychologically that they probably shouldn’t be in…
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College genetics classes getting personal. What could possibly go wrong?
Ryan J. Foley of Associated Press reports: Bakir Hajdarevic didn’t have to study for the most important test in a class last fall. He just had to spit — a lot. The 19-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa took an honors seminar on personal genetics in which students had the option of sending saliva…
Should the FTC require entities to notify us if they have breached our privacy?
As I noted yesterday, there have been at least three potential class action lawsuits against rent-to-own companies that used DesignerWare LLC software that, unbeknownst to consumers, remotely activated webcam images of individuals in their homes and in what might be sensitive or embarrassing situations. One of the allegations in one of the lawsuits, however, made…
For your reading list
The current issue of Yale Journal of Law & Technology includes two privacy-related articles. Here’s their summary, but it looks like a subscription is required to access the full articles: Moving from Nixon to NASA: Privacy’s Second Strand–A Right to Informational Privacy Christina P. Moniodis 15 Yale J.L. & Tech. 139 The Supreme Court’s data privacy…