In response to Jonathan Zittrain’s op-ed, “Lost in the Cloud,” Ryan Radia, Information Policy Analyst at Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes to the NY Times: […] Mr. Zittrain proposes a “fair practices law” that would require companies to release personal data back to users upon request. Such a rule may sound workable, but purging specific data…
Rights group blasts Interior Ministry’s biometric ID bill
The Knesset Science and Technology Committee is due to hold another discussion on Monday about the controversial Inclusion of Biometric Identifying Features in Identity Documents and a Data Bank bill. Committee chairman Meir Sheetrit hopes to approve the bill for second and third readings in time for the final approval by the Knesset plenum before…
I wouldn’t trust Google with my personal info
David Davis, Conservative MP for Haltemprice & Howden, has an op-ed in The Times that begins: When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data to Google, my heart sank. The policy described was so naive I could only hope that it…
Balancing consumer choice in the info privacy debate
More on the recent panel discussion sponsored by the Technology Policy Institute…. Advertisers need to consider consumers’ right to privacy when they collect information on individual internet consumers, a panel of academics, non-profits and industry officials agreed on Friday. The experts spoke during a panel discussion sponsored by the Technology Policy Institute, a market-oriented think…