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…
Category: Misc
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….
NL: Relatives will have a say in organ donation in ‘yes unless’ donor register
DutchNews.nl reports: Relatives who really do not want their family member to donate their organs after death will still have the final say if the Netherlands switches to a ‘yes unless’ donor register, the bill’s backer Pia Dijkstra said on Friday. Dijkstra, an MP for the Liberal democratic party, was told earlier this week by…
A Poor Mother’s Right to Privacy
Tracy Thomas writes: Danielle Keats Citron, A Poor Mother’s Right to Privacy: A Review, 98 Boston J. L. Rev. (forthcoming) Collecting personal data is a feature of daily life. Businesses, advertisers, agencies, and law enforcement amass massive reservoirs of our personal data. This state of affairs—what I am calling the “collection imperative”—is justified in the…