By The Exchange: In her new book, The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online, UNH assistant professor Nora Draper explores how notions of privacy have changed in the digital era, and how our personal information and online behavior can be used as a currency. We discuss how much control we have over our personal information…
Category: Misc
Reuters has a surveillance contract with ICE – take action now!
Action Alert. Media company Thomson-Reuters is making millions by supplying ICE agents with access to billions of license plate records. Government agents are actively using this data to target immigrant families and violate millions of people’s privacy and human rights. Reuters journalists have taken strong stands in the past. If they speak up about this,…
Happy Birthday, PogoWasRight.org!
Thirteen years ago today, PogoWasRight.org went live with its first post at 11:36 am. Wow. Since then, there have been more than 17,650 posts plus other web sites that spun off from this “mother ship:” phiprivacy.net (now merged with databreaches.net) and DataBreaches.net. And for a while, there was also my personal blog, Chronicles of Dissent,…
Creative Commons says copyright can’t protect your photos from ending up in a facial recognition database
From the it’s-complicated dept., Shannon Liao reports: This week, NBC reported that facial recognition researchers at companies like IBM often feed their algorithms photos from publicly available collections, only protected by a Creative Commons license, without requesting permission from the people who are photographed. The incident raised the question of whether or not such training…