Just one week away! If you’re going to be there, let me know. I am looking forward to seeing you all. And yes, for the record, I am likely violating the hell out of the forum’s copyright on this post, and using their images, and linking, and oh my….. but hey, it’s ICE CREAM! 🙂 …
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Announce: FTC PrivacyCon 2018
FEB 28, 2018 CONSTITUTION CENTER 400 7th St SW Washington, DC 20024 The 2018 PrivacyCon will expand collaboration among leading privacy and security researchers, academics, industry representatives, consumer advocates, and the government. As part of this initiative, the FTC sought general research that explores the privacy and security implications of emerging technologies, such as the…
Public Knowledge Hosts Post-Equifax Privacy Briefing February 5
Public Knowledge will host a briefing on privacy legislation February 5 from 2 – 3 p.m. at the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The briefing, “Privacy Protections in the Post-Equifax Era,” will outline privacy legislation expected for 2018 and review lessons learned from the 2017 Equifax data breach. Public Knowledge’s Senior Vice President, Harold Feld, will…
Exercise app shows why anonymous data can still be dangerous
Nora Young reports: It wasn’t a hack. It wasn’t a leak. It wasn’t even a mistake, really. But it showed how risky even anonymous data can be. Strava, which makes a fitness tracking app and website, publicly shared a map of the world, covered in squiggly lines. Each of those lines represented running routes, uploaded…