In an OpEd, history professor Dr. Margaret O’Mara writes: In the fall of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson’s administration announced a plan to consolidate hundreds of federal databases into one centralized National Data Bank. It was meant as an efficiency move to make the Great Society even greater. But there were many Americans who were worried…
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FTC Hearing on Consumer Protection on December 11-12
Daniel Solove will be one of the speakers. Dan tweeted: I will be speaking at the FTC Hearing on Data Security on Dec 12 https://t.co/FZv9VRe1Zc via @TeachPrivacy @DanielSolove Many terrific speakers at this event, including @hartzog, my co-author of a book on data security, forthcoming from Oxford U Press. pic.twitter.com/UvQxlegO7F — Daniel J. Solove (@DanielSolove)…
Scared Your DNA Is Exposed? Then Share It, Scientists Suggest
Kristen V Brown reports: A group of medical researchers have a counterintuitive proposal for shielding people’s most intimate personal data from prying eyes. Share more of it, they say. A lot more of it. Sometimes, a counterintuitive proposal is actually just a verry verry bad idea. As in this case. Read more on Bloomberg.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate this holiday! For those who will miss out on their family get-together because they are serving their community as firefighters, medics, police, soldiers…. thank you for the sacrifices you make today so that the rest of us can enjoy this occasion. As always, I am grateful for those who…