The PORTIA @ NYU website has launched:PORTIA at NYU focuses on social, political, and ethical aspects of the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of sensitive information about people.Project Team: Dr. Helen Nissenbaum (director), Timothy Weber, Michael Zimmer, Rachel Aridor, and…
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Google adds a (dangerous) Firefox tune-up
Google has announced advanced searching with Firefox:Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on…
ChoicePoint to Allow People Access, but Questions Remain
The AP is reporting that ChoicePoint will allow consumers to access and review their personal information on file with the data aggregation company. "You will receive the reports that we have on you," Don McGuffey, the firm's vice president for…
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Problems of Personalized Search
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting post on the potential problems of personalized search, including (a) as users change their behavior, relying on prior behavior becomes less accurate, (b) users don't like to login, (c) users don't always want localized searches,…
Fordham Conference on “Law and the Information Society”
Fordham University School of Law is hosting a conference on "Law and the Information Society" on April 7-8.Date(s): 04.07.05 | Thu -- 04.08.05 | FriTime: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Location: James B.M. McNally Amphitheatre,…
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Privacy and Vehicle Travel
Privacy.org points to a Boston.com article that discusses recent privacy concerns about the upcoming implementation of E-ZPass (electronic toll collection) in New Hampshire:The E-ZPass system that will soon make it easier to pay tolls in New Hampshire will make it…
IT Developers Need to Consider Privacy Implications of Systems
Privacy Digest points to this ComputerWeekly.com article reporting a debate among senior representatives from IT user companies, suppliers, government and universities about how IT designers' need to be aware of privacy concerns when designing their systems.IT can have a major…
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Draft of “A Model Regime of Privacy Protection”
Privacy law expert and law professor Dan Solove (I reviewed his latest book, The Digital Person, here) and Chris Hoofnagle (of EPIC) have published the first draft of "A Model Regime of Privacy Protection." From the abstract:Privacy protection in the…
AIM Terms of Service: Waiving your right to privacy
Privacy Digest reports that an update to AOL's Instant Messenger Terms of Service includes an explicit waiver of privacy. From the subsection "Content You Post" (emphasis added):Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title…
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Online Shopping Cart Company Fined For Selling User Data
TechDirt reports that an online shopping cart company has been fined by the FTC for selling user data to telemarketers and junk mailers without permission. Apparently, even if the website used to purchase something has a privacy policy and "opt…
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