I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Science & Society Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. This grant will support my dissertation research of the value…
Tag: Privacy
Matheson: The Original Privacy Position
David Matheson has posted an excellent essay on the blog*on*nymity research blog suggesting a merger of Nagel and Rawls into a theory of "the original privacy position": Perhaps we can make use of a privacy version of the Original Position;…
USA Today: Data miners dig a little deeper
USA Today has an article on the depth and breadth of personal information mined by online service providers, such as Microsoft's Hotmail free e-mail service, in order to provide marketers with highly detailed consumer profiles: Data miners dig a little…
Anonymity in Cyberspace: Finding the Balance
Earlier this year, the International Association of IT Lawyers (IAITL) organized the First International Conference on Legal, Privacy and Security Issues in Information Technology in Hamburg, Germany. The conference covered a broad range of topics, such as electronic signatures, e-commerce,…
Who Needs ChoicePoint when you have First Data
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…
AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn’t yours
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…
AP: Police Bypassed Subpoenas, Got Phone Data From Brokers
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…
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Google, Microsoft and Others Establish Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum
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…
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Mine Data Not Details
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…
Hillary Clinton Calls for Privacy Bill of Rights
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…
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