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…
Category: Misc
Vermont bill regulating data brokers to be voted on Friday – speak up now!
There will be a vote this Friday in the Vermont legislature on a bill intended to regulate data brokers in Vermont. Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum informs me that industry has submitted many letters of opposition. Those who want the bill to pass need to speak up now to offset the negative pressure…
Privacy events: grab your calendars
This year’s Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference is closed out (again!), but Chris Hoofnagle reminds us that there are some other privacy events of note that you may wish to register for. Here are three of them, below. The Second Northeast Privacy Scholars Workshop will take place on November 9, 2018 at Fordham University School of…
Not Even AI Can Make Total Sense of a Privacy Policy
Kaleigh Rogers reports: Nobody actually reads through the privacy policies of every website, which is why researchers recently used artificial intelligence to create a tool that reads them for you and flags anything you might not be psyched to agree to. Launched earlier this year as a part of the Usable Privacy Project, the tool…