Bob Brewin reports: When the current crop of Defense Department ID cards start to expire this June, they will be replaced with new ones that no longer contain a Social Security number as an identifier. Air Force Maj. Monica Matoush, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said the SSN will be replaced by a new, unique 10-digit Defense…
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Wall St. J. Covers Tragedy of the Data Commons
Derek Bambauer writes: Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article discussing data privacy that draws on Jane Yakowitz’s great new paper, Tragedy of the Data Commons, which is presently making the rounds of the law reviews in the spring submission cycle. The article examines contemporary attitudes towards privacy and, as Jane’s paper describes, the tradeoffs between enhanced…
Europe and U.S. converging on Internet privacy
Eva Dou of Reuters reports: Few topics are more sensitive for Web users, or more likely to raise concerns in the corridors of Facebook or Google, than how to regulate privacy. For years the United States and Europe, with around 700 million Internet users between them, have diverged in their approach to policing the Web….
Privacy: reidentification a growing risk
Melanie D.G. Kaplan interviewed Paul Ohm on the re-identification of supposed-to-be de-identified records. Here’s a snippet of the interview, which you can read in its entirety on SmartPlanet: Earlier this month the Commerce Department released a green paper that proposes a privacy bill of rights. What are your thoughts on this? I think it’s great…