Given the increased frequency of revelations about government data gathering and surveillance stories, Dan Solove has created a quick and easy template to help news outlets report on these stories: Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration…
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I used to work in the electronic payment processing industry, and was amazed at the amount of purchasing data that passed through our systems on a daily basis. My company was in a top 10 processor, with First Data Corp…
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that appears to give them more latitude when it comes to sharing customers' personal data with government officials. In fact, it states outright that customers' personal data…
Why should you be concerned about the aggregation and commercial availability of your personal information? Because you have little Constitutional protection from the state accessing such "third party" data, as this AP report makes all to clear: Numerous federal and…
Read More AP: Police Bypassed Subpoenas, Got Phone Data From Brokers
A group of twelve notable and diverse U.S. companies are joining forces to create a Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum to study the implications and explore support for comprehensive federal consumer privacy legislation. Google, one of the signatories, has posted the…
Read More Google, Microsoft and Others Establish Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum
Lifehacker links to a useful tool for obfuscating personal data entered in (non-vital) registration forms online, the False Identity Generator: The False Identity Generator is a simple, web-based tool that generates a random first and last name, a valid city,…
Wired News is carrying an AP report of the workshop on the Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection I attended at Harvard University’s Center for Research on Computation and Society a few weeks ago, where a common theme was coming up…
My U.S. Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is calling for the creation of a "privacy bill of rights" to protect people's personal data. From the AP wire: ''Modern life makes many things easier and many things easier to know, and yet…
A few months ago I blogged about Riya, a photo sharing and search site that lets you tag and search images based on facial recognition technology. Users have uploaded over 7 million personal photos to Riya's servers and tagged and…
My greatest concern about the collection of personal information by search engines, web 2.0 services, transportation systems and the like isn't that certain individual companies happen to own a slice of my data, nor that these slices are increasingly being…
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