From an opinion piece by Misha Valencia: Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is fatally shot by a current or former partner. Intimate partner homicide is one of the leading causes of death for women in the country, with nearly half of all murdered women killed by a partner. But there are…
Category: Misc
Anonymized data isn’t nearly anonymous enough – here’s how we fix it
Donna Lu reports: To protect privacy, data collected about us is sometimes anonymised before being used, such as for scientific research or by advertising companies wanting to hone their algorithms. The process involves removing personally identifiable information – including direct identifiers like names or photographs, and combinations of indirect identifiers such as workplace, occupation, salary…
Wikipedia co-founder calls for social media strike over privacy issues
Hannah Frishberg reports: “Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires.” Thus begins Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger’s “Declaration of Digital Independence,” a new manifesto of sorts advocating for the decentralization of “Big Social Media.” He is asking for digital dissenters to sign it — and strike. In a separate blog post, Sanger calls for…
Webinar Invitation — Cyberthreats in the Internet of Things
There are lots of webinars all of the time. But this one is more oriented to lawyers, and I thought some of my readers might be interested in it. From Hogan Lovells: Please join the Hogan Lovells Privacy and Cybersecurity and Litigation teams on July 16th for our webinar, Cyberthreats in the Internet of Things. We will explore…