Sports journalist Matthew Syed of The Times (UK) explains why Woods has forfeited any right to privacy at this point: To put it simply, Woods’s right to privacy has been fatally undermined not by his earning lots of cash beyond the golf course, but by his hypocrisy. He could have had sex with a platoon…
Google CEO sets privacy tongues a-lashing
Cade Metz reports on a comment by Google CEO Eric Schmidt during a CNBC interview that has set tongues a-clucking and a-lashing on the ‘net. If you’re concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then you must be doing something you shouldn’t be doing. At least that’s the word from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “If…
The Real Privacy Paradox
Larry Downes comments on yesterday’s FTC roundtable as well as a recent survey in discussing the so-called “privacy paradox.” He writes, in part: As I write in Law Two of The Laws of Disruption (“Personal Information”), researchers, advocacy groups and their colleagues in the mainstream media have for years been describing what they call “the…
Ngo: Online targeted advertising discussed at FTC roundtable
Melissa Ngo of Privacy Lives blogged about her participation and the issues addressed in yesterday’s first of three FTC Roundtable: The Federal Trade Commission had the first of three privacy roundtables yesterday, and I spoke on a panel about online targeted behavioral advertising. The other speakers on the panel were: Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center…