Eric Goldman writes: I’ve posted a new essay to SSRN titled The Irony of Privacy Class Action Lawsuits. It should be published later this year in the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law at University of Colorado. The essay comes out of a panel discussion we had at Colorado Law in December on the…
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Resource: Librarians for Privacy
Jay Stanley of the ACLU writes: The American Library Association has created an excellent public education resource on the privacy issues facing our society – a web site called privacyrevolution.org. Read more on ACLU. Today starts Choose Privacy Week. Find out more on privacyrevolution.org. Thanks to the reader who sent in this link. If you know of…
From self-monitoring to auto-monitoring in just four quick decades
The CNET story by Liane Yvkoff on how your car will monitor your mood got some notice on Twitter. Some people raised the creepiness factor, and some raised concerns that the data would be turned over to insurance companies via “black box” recordings and then used against us in the event of an accident. Some of us…
Hearing Strains to Revive Addled Privacy Watchdog
Adam Klasfeld reports on yesterday’s hearing on nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a board that has been inactive for years: … Three years into his term, Obama made his first five nominations: James Dempsey, an executive with the Center for Democracy & Technology; Elisebeth Collins Cook, a former Department of Justice…