Steven Wilson writes: The EPIC privacy tweet chat of October 16 included “the Privacy Perils of Biometric Security”. Consumers and privacy advocates are often wary of this technology, sometimes fearing a hidden agenda. To be fair, function creep and unauthorised sharing of biometric data are issues that are anticipated by standard data protection regulations and can be…
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Thoughts on Privacy and the Use of Facebook to Recruit Research Subjects
Michael Zimmer writes: Recently, I was approached by a team of researchers concerned with the research ethics issuesrelated to using Facebook to recruit human subjects. Specifically, the team was planning to useFacebook advertisements in order to target certain users for a research study evaluating the effectiveness of a particular educational strategy aimed at decreasing the occurrence of…
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board First Meeting
Via Cryptome: http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2012-26153_PI.pdf [FR Doc. 2012-26153 Filed 10/19/2012 at 11:15 am; Publication Date: 10/23/2012] PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OVERSIGHT BOARD [Notice-PCLOB-2012-01; Docket No. 2012-0013; Sequence No. 1] Sunshine Act; Notice of Meeting TIME AND DATE: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. (Eastern Time), Tuesday, October 30, 2012. PLACE: GSA’s National Capital Region Building, 301 7th Street,…
National Comprehensive Data Protection/Privacy Laws and Bills 2012 Map
A great resource by David Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel of Article19.org, has been updated and uploaded to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Over 90 countries and jurisdictions around the world have adopted comprehensive data protection/privacy laws to protect personal data held by both governments and private companies. This map shows which countries have adopted laws or…