It’s that time of the year….. and my favorite privacy law conference, the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, is being hosted in Berkeley this year. Every year, Dan Solove, Chris Hoofnagle, and their wonderful students put together a great event. This year, there will be almost 300 attendees. Although the organizers try to keep the number of…
Category: Misc
Dutch woman traces anonymous sperm donor father via dna banks
As the debate about re-identification of “anonymized” data rages on, this story may be of interest: A Dutch woman has managed to trace her donor father using commercial dna banks in the US, the Volkskrant reports on Tuesday. Emi Stikkelman, 32, sent three dna samples to dna banks, where a match was found with an…
Consumers Less Confident About Healthcare, Data Privacy, and Car Safety, New Survey Finds
Consumer Reports reports: More Americans are pessimistic about their rights and protections as consumers than they were a few months ago just before a new Congress and the Trump administration assumed control in Washington. That’s the finding of Consumer Reports’ second Consumer Voices Survey, conducted in April. Results from the nationally representative survey of 1,007…
Happy Birthday, PogoWasRight.org!
Eleven years ago today, Ziplock and I opened PogoWasRight.org. The original site resides only on our hard drives by now, but the fond memories remain. Many of the issues you see covered on this site these days -like warrantless surveillance and student privacy – were also covered on the site back in 2006. And despite…