The program for next month’s Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“ has been posted and features an excellent array of tutorials, plenaries and panels: Plenary Sessions Presidential Technology Policy: Priorities for the Next Executive The 21st Century…
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In preparation for next month's Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“, the Yale Information Society Project has released "9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration": 1. Privacy. Protect human dignity, autonomy, and privacy by providing…
Read More Yale ISP’s “9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”
Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Google's social networking site Orkut, which is immensely popular in Brazil, is no exception. In 2006, I commented on Google's decision to comply with a Brazilian court order…
Read More Google to “systematically” provide data on suspect Orkut users to Brazilian authorities
The New York Times reports on commentary in the current New England Journal of Medicine where two doctors warn of the dangers of having large corporations like Microsoft or Google being in the business of storing patient medical records. Here's…
Read More Doctors Warn of Dangers of Storage of Health Records by MSFT / Google
Yahoo has issued a press release on their new ad sales system, AMP! that provided a few new insights into this "powerful new online advertising platform." The New York Times broke this story earlier, which I blogged about here. Interestingly,…
The European Commission's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has released their long-awaited "Opinion on Data Protection Issues Related to Search Engines" (PDF), something I've debated here. At first glance, it seems we're in agreement that the Data Protection Directive…
Read More Article 29 Working Party: Opinion on Data Protection Issues Related to Search Engines
The New York Times is reporting details of Yahoo's forthcoming new advertising system which will allow targeting of ads based on users' online activities: Yahoo said the system, called AMP and still months away from being ready, would greatly simplify…
Read More Yahoo’s New Ad Sales System to Include Behavioral Targeting
David Faser points to an article in the Times Online that throws a bunch of softball questions at Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer. Facebook has been at the center of multiple violations of user privacy, and all the Times…
Read More Real Questions for Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer
Let's say you run an internet company whose primary function is to help individual locate and access information available on the World Wide Web. Let's say your mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and…
Read More Google (again) Opposes Anti-Censorship and Human Rights Proposals
Consumer attention to privacy is seemingly on the rise. We witnessed renewed concern about the tracking of user behavior online, medical privacy as Web-based storage solutions are being proposed, the tracking and selling of television viewing patterns, the merging of…
Read More CFP: Privacy Literacy — How Consumers Understand and Protect Their Privacy
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