Legal but annoying as heck? Kathleen Foster reports: If your email inbox starts overflowing with messages from political campaigns this election season, it could be because your state sold you out. A Fox News study has found 19 states plus the District of Columbia, now ask for an email address on voter registration cards. In…
Category: Misc
Should Personal Data Be Personal?
Somini Sengupta writes: …. Every European country has a privacy law, as do Canada, Australia and many Latin American countries. The United States remains a holdout: We have separate laws that protect our health records and financial information, and even one that keeps private what movies we rent. But there is no law that spells…
The right to be forgotten, or how to edit your history
Peter Fleischer writes: The “Right to be Forgotten” is a very successful political slogan. Like all successful political slogans, it is like a Rorschach test. People can see in it what they want. The debate would sound quite different if the slogan were actually something more descriptive, for example, the “right to delete”. The European…
At Davos, Discussions of a Global Data Deluge
Nick Bilton writes: Each year, a new theme reverberates through technology conferences around the world. A few years ago it was predictions of the coming wave of social media, location-based services and mobile, long before they became mainstream. Today’s topic de jour: data. Lots of data. What makes the data discussion different than in previous…