Yale ISP’s “9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”

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…

Google to “systematically” provide data on suspect Orkut users to Brazilian authorities

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…

More Details on Yahoo’s New Ad Sales System, AMP!

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,…

Article 29 Working Party: Opinion on Data Protection Issues Related to Search Engines

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…

Real Questions for Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer

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…

CFP: Privacy Literacy — How Consumers Understand and Protect Their Privacy

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…