The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security. Reports of the incident took hold in social media, with scores of comments on the topic and reposts appearing hourly on…
Category: Misc
Does Anonymizing Data Help Protect Customers’ Privacy?
Klint Finley writes: Data collected from customers is routinely anonymized and then sold or otherwise disseminated for research purposes. But does anonymization work? One particularly high profile case was Netflix’s release of its customer data as part of its machine learning algorithm contest. According to Forbes’ firewall blog, researchers were able to de-anonymize some of this…
When Facts About Another’s Life Are Also Facts About Your Life
Eugene Volokh comments on a case that raises an issue I’ve discussed here occasionally – can one person’s right to privacy trump another person’s right to talk about their own life: Greg A. Fultz put up a billboard showing himself holding what appears to be empty space, with the words “This Would Have Been A Picture Of…
No Place to Hide: First Amendment Protection for Location Privacy
The following is an excerpt from an article by Ted Claypoole that was published in the BNA Electronic Commerce Law Reporter (16 ECLR 869): Support for a Constitutional Right to Geolocation Privacy and Anonymity. The United States Constitution famously does not mention privacy, although it mentions personal security, which could have meant something similar to…