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…
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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…
Standing up to ICE
Sometimes people choose to disclose pieces of their history in the hopes of helping others appreciate the background that led them to form an opinion, or to offer others hope for the future. The speaker in this clip gave me goosebumps, brought me to tears, and then made me want to stand up and cheer….