I’m back home now after PLSC, and starting to get caught up on posting news items, but am still just totally pumped up from a great conference. Because the rules don’t permit discussion of specifics about who said what, etc. let me just put it this way: When experts in privacy law are responding to papers…
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Off to PLSC!
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…
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…