Elizabeth Brico reports: When Jayne checked her email on the morning of February 13, she didn’t expect to find anything particularly exciting. The 34-year-old, who asked her real name be withheld out of fear that speaking out could affect her housing benefits, was enjoying a rare moment of relative peace on a snow day in…
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Consumers Care About Privacy, but Not Enough to Act on It
Kelly Sheridan reports: People claim to value data privacy and don’t trust businesses to protect them – but most fail to protect themselves. RSA CONFERENCE 2019 – San Francisco –When it comes to data privacy, users’ practices fail to align with their values. Most claim to value privacy and don’t fully trust businesses to protect…
Googling strangers: One professor’s lesson on privacy in public spaces
Francesca Paris and Scott Simon report: Charlotte Lehman could hear the man reading his credit card number out loud from across the Starbucks. He was speaking to a companion, but his voice carried over the music to where Lehman sat. Surrounded by a dozen or so people, the speaker also divulged his phone number and…
We’re not safe without information privacy
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, and CIO of Everipedia, has an OpEd on Podium. He writes, in part, that both political parties have not served us well in terms of protecting us from the serious risks we face: Remember when everybody left social media in droves and started locking down their Internet use, because otherwise…