Chris Kanaracus reports: A judge in Delaware on Thursday ordered the unsealing of a letter containing allegations of sexual harassment by former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, which ultimately led to his departure from the company. Hurd, who is now co-president of Oracle, was accused of sexual harassment by former HP contractor Jodie Fisher. The letter…
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America’s Perilous Patchwork of Privacy Laws
Richard Adhikari writes: As a concept, the notion of online privacy seems to rank right up there with the Tooth Fairy. Facebook has declared that all posts by members on their walls are public property; Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) keeps getting into trouble with various governments over the data its Street View cars collect; and you…
Twitter Event Mar. 16: #TAPtalk
TAP will be hosting a chat on Twitter under the hashtag #TAPtalk on March 16 from 2 pm to 3 pm, EST. Their lineup of participants, who will ask and answer questions during the hour-long TAPtalk, includes: Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus Center: @AdamThierer Chris Hoofnagle, Director, Information Privacy Programs at UC Berkeley:…
Deleting History: Why Governments Demand Google Censor the Truth
Approaches to privacy are becoming more disparate across continents as EU perspectives on a “right to be forgotten” have raised the hackles of Americans who believe that such efforts inevitably constitute censorship and a rewriting of history. Lauren Weinstein provides his perspective on the issue. He writes, in part: … what we’re seeing on various…