Category: Misc

Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: A Social Security Administration shift last year to limit access to its death records amid identity-theft concerns is beginning to hamper a broad swath of research, including federal government assessments of hospital safety and financial industry efforts to spot consumer fraud. For example, a research group that…

Interesting infographic from Muhammed Saleem:

Peter Fleischer writes: There’s an entire, vibrant privacy conference business.  There are privacy conferences somewhere in the world every week of the year.  Some are commercial, some are taxpayer-funded.  Why are they so boring? Because they take one of the most interesting topics in the world, privacy, and discuss and debate it from an insular…

Omer Tene writes: … the two frameworks for privacy protection, information privacy and constitutional privacy are premised on diametrically opposed conceptions of a data controller as a hero (information privacy) or villain (constitutional privacy). This tension is manifest, for example, in the highly contentious “third party doctrine”, which has taken hold in US privacy law in…