There’s a new working paper up on SSRN by Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius and Bart Van der Sloot. Here’s the abstract: This chapter discusses the interplay between the European personal data protection regime and two specific Google services, Interest Based Advertising and Google Street View. The chapter assesses first the applicability of the Data Protection…
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Presentations on the Obama Administration’s “Privacy Bill of Rights” and the Proposed Amendments to the EU Data Privacy Directive
Eric Goldman has a blog post on his presentations on the Obama Administration’s “Privacy Bill of Rights” and the Proposed Amendments to the EU Data Privacy Directive. You can read his blog entry and access copies of his presentations on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
Biometric Databases and Quantitative Privacy
Danielle Citron writes: The new $1 billion Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is now in its roll out phase. NGI–a joint project of federal, state, and local law enforcement and other agencies — is a nationwide network of databases containing images of the body’s characteristics, such as fingerprints, iris, retina, voice, and face. […] Several privacy…
Problems with Pew’s Mobile Privacy Study
Fahmida Y. Rashid reports that methodological issues confound interpretation of a widely cited study by Pew: The problem is, the survey attempted an apples-to-oranges comparison for each of those findings. Non-smartphones, or feature phones (often called “dumb phones”) are a varied lot, including the likes of LG Rumor Reflex with a keyboard and touchscreen interface,…