Just when you thought you were safe? Ax Sharma reports: Using pixelation to redact images? Those pixels may not actually be hiding anything. A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique. Further, the researcher has released a GitHub tool that can be used by…
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Article: Race and Online Privacy
Over on Public Citizen, Jeff Sovern points us to an article by Anita L. Allen of Penn, Dismantling the Black Opticon: Race Equity and Online Privacy and Data Protection Reform, forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. Abstract In the opening decades of the 21st century popular online platforms rapidly transformed the world. These platforms have come with…
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Can’t keep up during the week? Neither can I. But on Sundays, I try to look at the headlines and links Joe Cadillic compiles because he is truly amazing. Here are just a handful of items he had in his January 31 compilation: Uber and Lyft Drivers Want to ID All Passengers: “Earlier this year,…
Mozilla adds four privacy-centric orgs to Data Futures Lab, awards each with $100,000
Jonathan Greig reports: Mozilla announced this week that four organizations have joined its latest Data Futures Lab cohort. Place Trust, Driver’s Seat Cooperative, Drivers Coop and Digital Democracy will all get $100,000 grants as well as access to Mozilla Fellows and a network of experts who can help them build out their platforms. Read more at ZDNet.