Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports: Senator Richard Durbin could scarcely contain himself as he placed his trap for Mark Zuckerberg. “Would you be comfortable,” the senator asked the Facebook chief executive, peering over his glasses with campy solemnity, “sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” Zuckerberg seemed at first to have…
Category: Misc
Welcome, “Commissioner Miner”
PogoWasRight is delighted to welcome “Commissioner Miner,” a polite but determined Canadian consumer privacy advocate. CM has been a regular contributor to this blog for the past decade or so, sending me links to articles of interest in Canada and increasing my awareness of issues in Canada. At long last, he has accepted his rightful…
Register now for the New Zealand 2018 Privacy Forum
Let’s see if my little blog can help promote an event in New Zealand. From their privacy commissioner’s site: 2018 Privacy Forum This is a significant year for privacy in New Zealand. Our 25-year-old Privacy Act is set to be reformed and new privacy legislation put in its place. What is likely to change with…
The Personal Data of 346,000 People, Hung on a Museum Wall
Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chenapril report: Deng Yufeng wanted to create art that prods people to question their lack of data privacy. What better way, he reasoned, than to buy the personal information of more than 300,000 Chinese people off the internet and display it in a public exhibition? The police did not appreciate the…