From the office of New Zealand’s privacy commissioner, some welcome news: John Edwards has been reappointed by the Government to serve another term as Privacy Commissioner. Mr Edwards was appointed in December 2013 and began in the role in February 2014. His reappointment will take his term as Privacy Commissioner to 2024. The Privacy Commissioner…
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The Monetary Value Of Your Personal Data: Privacy In The Digital Era
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…
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,…