What are some memorable or catchy slogans you’ve heard or can generate for Data Privacy Day? For the first two years, I used “If you collect it, protect it!” and I just heard one person say, “When in doubt, don’t give it out.” But with all of the creativity out there, there are probably a…
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Loss of privacy highlights cost, CMU professor says
Debra Erdley reports: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declared privacy dead and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange trampled the corpse, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University believe privacy of personal information remains a key concern in the digital age. “When you lose it, you realize the cost of it,” said Alessandro Acquisti, a Carnegie Mellon professor of…
Location and Privacy: Where are we headed on Data Privacy Day?
Brendon Lynch, the Chief Privacy Officer of Microsoft, writes: Technologies and services that track, analyze and share individuals’ movements have proliferated in recent years. With more and more people connecting to the Internet through mobile devices, and with location based services surging in popularity, new concerns are emerging about how individuals’ movements are tracked and analyzed….
The difference between privacy and security
Ben Adida writes: Facebook today rolled out new security features, both of which are awesome: SSL everywhere, and social re-authentication. True, SSL everywhere should probably be a default, even though I continue to believe that the cost is significantly underestimated by many privacy advocates. Regardless, this announcement is great news. The only nitpick I have,…