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Compliance isn't the same as an ethical commitment to privacy.
As part of a dark web investigation, Evernote handed over a suspect's notes stored on the company's servers.
LinkedIn has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 billion, after ...
Opinion | We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster. - The New York Times
The average policy took 18 minutes to finish and required a college-level reading ability.
Google has 50M people's medical records but won't merge them with other Google data.
Our Student Privacy team put together "A Parent’s Guide to Student Privacy," empowering parents to ask their child's school questions to advocate for their privacy. The guide is meant to raise awareness around student privacy and data issues parents might run into in their child’s school.
On August 13, 2019, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) spoke with Kim Nesmith, Data Governance and Privacy Director, Louisiana Department of Education, who developed the guidebook with her team, about key steps that schools and LEAs can take to use data to achieve educational success while ensuring privacy, transparency, and other necessary safeguards.
You just downloaded the hottest new app, and now you have to click through pages of boilerplate text before you can use it. Who has time for all that? Even privacy and security-minded folks often skim through an app’s Terms of Service, and for good reason. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon estimated that it would take a…
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
Something’s wrong when a company takes a financial hit because it can’t continue to violate users’ trust.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) takes effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA aims to provide consumers with an unprecedented array of rights
"Opting out by withholding consent is rarely a realistic option given the compulsory nature of primary and secondary education and the competitive pressure on students to obtain credentials from higher education institutions to ensure future opportunities."
Twitter 2FA is every bit as bad as critics said it was. Site signals a change is coming.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
No one likes job hunting. If you say you do, you're probably lying. Finding the job of your dreams or even one tangentially related to your field can be emotion
We test the hypothesis that increasing individuals’ perceived control over the release and access of private information—even information that allows them to be personally identified––will increase their willingness to disclose sensitive information. If their willingness to divulge increases sufficiently, such an increase in control can, paradoxically, end up leaving them more vulnerable. Our findings highlight how, if people respond in a sufficiently offsetting fashion, technologies designed to protect them can end up exacerbating the risks they face.