I don’t usually post job listings on this site, but am making an exception for this message from privacy law scholar Dan Solove: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law I’m very excited to report that GW Law is hiring a dean to help run our Privacy & Technology Law Program and our Center…
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The UN is moving to fight cybercrime but privacy groups say human rights will be violated
Michael Weissenstein reports: A global deal on the criminal use of computer technology is moving ahead despite worries it will let governments around the world violate human rights by probing electronic communications and bypassing privacy safeguards. Nearly 200 nations approved the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime on Thursday afternoon at a special committee meeting that capped months of complicated…
GPEN Sweep finds majority of websites and mobile apps use deceptive design to influence privacy choices
July 9, 2024 Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta participated in research that led to today’s conclusions A global privacy sweep that examined more than 1,000 websites and mobile applications (apps) has found that nearly all of them employed one or more deceptive design patterns that made it difficult for users to make privacy-protective decisions….
Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy
Jordan Awan writes: Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patterns, which raises concerns for privacy. In statistics and machine learning, the goal is to learn from past data…