Category: Misc

Well, Ryan Tate thinks that wearing a Mark Zuckerberg mask this Halloween is the ultimate in spooky,  but there’s a better reason to wear a Mark Zuckerberg mask.  As I tweeted earlier this evening, I think it’s a perfectly appropriate way to protect your privacy while you trick-or-treat, don’t you?

Andy Serwin writes: While the First Amendment to the United States Constitution on its face would not appear to have privacy implications, it does in fact impact certain privacy issues. The First Amendment guarantees the right of free expression, including speech, as well as the right of free assembly. The First Amendment obviously applies to speech on…

Mark A. Rothstein of the University of Louisville  Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law has an article in The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10 Issue 9 2010), “Is Deidentification Sufficient to Protect Health Privacy in Research?” Here’s the abstract: The revolution in health information technology has enabled the compilation and use of large data…

The Boston Phoenix published this editorial earlier this week: Privacy, in the scheme of things, is a relatively new invention. Our ancestors began walking on their hind legs about 200,000 years ago, but it took them another 150,000 years before they got around to building cities and thus having anything worth being private about. In An…