Some other articles this week you may wish to read: Declan McCullagh discusses Why no one cares about privacy anymore, but Chris Matyszczyk disagrees in Why people really do care about privacy. SXSWi keynote speaker Danah Boyd agrees that privacy is not dead, as reported by both Daniel Terdiman and Jason Kincaid.
Category: Misc
Crime scene photos request sparks privacy debate
Bill Rankin reports: In 1990, five families lost their children, all college students in Gainesville, Fla., to a serial killer who grotesquely mutilated his victims. In 1994 a new outrage confronted those same families: Florida media outlets filed for access, under the state’s public disclosure law, to crime-scene photos that were beyond horrific. The families…
Is Disclosing a 911 Call to the Public a Privacy Violation?
Law professor Dan Solove writes: Whenever there’s a story these days about an emergency 911 call, the call is often disclosed to the public. Recently, there was news of yet another public disclosure of a 911 call, this time a call by a woman who witnessed the suicide of Marie Osmond’s son. I’ve long thought…
Commentary: Toyota, EDR’s, and privacy
As I was reading the news about Toyota, I flashed back to privacy concerns about Event Data Recorders installed in our cars, which are similar to the “black box” in airplanes (cf here and here). Now the Associated Press is reporting that when such data might actually be of help to car owners who are…