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…
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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…
15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time
Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes: In honor of National Data Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we’ve put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time. These high-profile privacy scandals involve many underlying technologies, from search to social media, e-mail to voice mail, mobile phones to Webcams to GPS. But at…