Privacy International today launched “Cracking the Black Box” (https://boxcrack.net), a site devoted to discovering the answers to key technical mysteries behind some of the world’s most controversial IT systems. The site encourages experts and whistleblowers to help resolve crucial questions about how technology is designed and deployed. The first two issues being addressed are the…
Category: Misc
Your Panties Are Not Safe: The Scoop on Underwear DNA Tests
avflox has an interesting blog entry that includes opinions of several lawyers on the issue of whether having your spouse’s underwear tested for evidence of cheating violates any laws on privacy. And of course, being lawyers, some get somewhat creative in advancing the idea of property torts vs. privacy torts, etc. …. an e-mail stumbled…
Geotag your photos without wires–or fuss
Josh Lowensohn has an article on cnet on the value of geotagging photos and some options for doing so. I wondered whether he’d address any of the privacy concerns of geotagging photos. For a moment, I got my hopes up when I scrolled down and saw a subsection of his article, “The downsides and fine…
Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference to be held this week
“Get back. Get back. Get back to where you once belonged.” That Beatles’ tune kept running through my head yesterday as I read through some of the draft papers for the upcoming Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference to be held this week in Washington, D.C. While many of the papers are forward-looking, some take us back…