Category: Misc

Daniel Solove writes: This Friday, November 9th, I will be introducing and participating in the Harvard Law Review’s symposium on privacy and technology.  The symposium is open to the public, and is from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at Harvard Law School (Langdell South). I have posted a draft of my symposium essay on SSRN, where it can be…

Peter Fleischer writes: The data protection establishment, worldwide, has been inventing a lot of new privacy compliance programs.  All these different, well-intentioned initiatives are meant to serve the same purpose:  improve privacy protections.  All of them are, or likely will soon be, mandatory for most big companies.  I can hardly keep track of all the…

A paper by Ann Cavoukian, PhD, the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, describes the systems and initiatives driving the Personal Data Ecosystem and how they seek to address the challenge of protecting and promoting privacy, while at the same time, encouraging the socio-economic opportunities and benefits of personal information as a new asset class. The…

I’m not in the 1% on wealth. I’m not in the 47% who reportedly don’t pay federal taxes. I am, however, among those who still have no power or light thanks to the incompetence and mismanagement of Long Island Power.  I hope Governor Cuomo and my county do something about LIPA’s ignoring our towns for…