Sheila L. Millar and Tracy P. Marshall of Keller and Heckman LLP write: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a collaborative effort to develop a voluntary framework that will help organizations manage privacy risks and protect consumer privacy when developing and using innovative technologies. Read more on National Law Review.
Category: Misc
Sarah Sanders calls for investigation into anonymous op-ed author
Lauren Gambino reports: The anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed that is searingly critical of Donald Trump’s ability to be president is “attempting to undermine the executive branch”, the White House press secretary said on Monday. Sarah Sanders added that the US Department of Justice should “look into” the writer’s identity, but declined to say…
Department of Commerce Launches Collaborative Privacy Framework Effort
From NIST: GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Innovative technologies such as the “internet of things” (IoT) and artificial intelligence enhance convenience, efficiency and economic growth. At the same time, these and other technologies increasingly require complex networking environments and use detailed data about individuals that can make protecting their privacy harder. To help meet this challenge, the U.S….
Who needs democracy when you have data?
Christina Larson reports: In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment in “electronic democracy,” in which a single citizen, selected to represent an entire population, responded to questions generated by a computer named Multivac. The machine took this data and calculated the results of an election that therefore never…