Paul Roberts writes: What is the value of data privacy to online shoppers? About 65 cents, according to a new study of by researchers in Britain and Germany. The report: “Study on Monetising Privacy: An Economic Model for Pricing Personal Information” was released in February and presents the results of work by researchers from DIW…
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A privacy policy in plain language? Be still, my heart.
Peter Fleischer points us to some examples of plain language privacy policies: …. Many government regulations aren’t really drafted for normal citizens. They’re drafted by and for lawyers, lobbyists, specialists, and regulators. The same is often true of privacy policies. I’m in the school that thinks that privacy policies should be drafted for the general public,…
Reading Over Your Shoulder: Social Readers and Privacy Law
Margot Kaminski has an article in Wake Forest L. Rev. Online that begins: My friends, who are generally well educated and intelligent, read a lot of garbage. I know this because since September 2011, their taste in news about Justin Bieber, Snooki, and the Kardashians has been shared with me through “social readers” on Facebook.[1]…
Google and the privacy Richter scale
Jay Cline writes: Last week, Google followed through on its plan to consolidate its 60 privacy policies into a single approach. Some privacy advocates and regulators are worried that Google will now be able to know and track people like never before. But on the scale of all the bad things that could happen to…