Tim Kridel writes for Digital Innovation Gazette: More than half of app users have uninstalled or decided to not install an app due to concerns about personal information, according to a recent Pew Internet Project survey. If that isn’t motivation enough to protect customer privacy, consider the growing number of federal and state laws penalizing…
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Event Today: The Public Voice: Privacy Rights are a Global Challenge
Renata Avila writes: October 22, 2012 is an important day for global civil society defending privacy and free speech. The Public Voice coalition will be hosting a global conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and you are invited to take part in the conversation and interact with the panelists. You can follow the live conversation here, and…
The fundamental privacy challenges in biometrics
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…
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…