If data is the new oil, what's the new global warming? Social Cooling asks the question: is our faith in big data slowly making us more well behaved.. but less human?

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What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? That’s one of the underpinning ...

Protect Researcher Privacy in the Surveillance Era

Sam Kome
Director of Strategic Initiatives & Information Technology
Claremont Colleges

See https://www.cni.org/pbs/protect-researcher-privacy-in-the-surveillance-era for more information.

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Spring 2017 Membership Meeting
April 3-4, 2017
Washington, DC
https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2017/

By: Nursyeha Yahaya, Devika Sangaram, Salihin M.A. & Aaron Tay, pp. 61-73 Abstract: The Li Ka Shing Library recently included a new section, “Heat Maps” on the library website, providing users …

In Privacy on the Ground, the law and information scholars Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan showed that empowered chief privacy officers (CPOs) are pushin

Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering  from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant  request for an NSA contractor ...

Case study that should provoke discussion!

Warning that new regulations will give Google, Apple and Facebook too much control of advertising and personal data

While few studies examine the online privacy practices or attitudes of young people of low socio-economic status (SES), they are often at the most risk of and m...

Phishing for dissidents

Federal cybersecurity and privacy protections for children are not keeping up with the burgeoning data collection engaged in by “smart” toys and online games, Sen. Mark Warner said Monday, asking the Federal Trade Commission if the law needs to be changed. In a letter to acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen, the senator says he’s concerned the agency is soft-pedaling the dangers the Internet of Things might pose for children, citing a speech she gave earlier this year. “Reports of your statements casting these risks as merely speculative — and dismissing consumer harms that don’t pose “monetary injury or unwarranted health and safety risks” — only deepen my concerns,” the Virginia Democrat wrote. He cites the recent example of CloudPets, a product from Spiral Toys that’s marketed as “a message you can hug.” The company turned out to be storing users’ personal data in an insecure, public-facing online database — reportedly exposing over 800,000 customer logins and passwords and more than 2 million voice recordings […]

The ever-expanding operations of Uber are defined by two interlocking and zealously guarded sets of information: the things the world-dominating ride-hailing company knows about you, and the things it doesn’t want you to know about it. Both kinds of secrets have been in play in the Superior Court of California in San…

The facts of this case are fairly typical. The plaintiff was hit by a truck. She sued the truck company and driver. In discovery, the defendants requested that she “download and produce an electronic copy of your Facebook account history”...

Facebook tracks logged-out users who have not consented to tracking.

On the civic importance of privacy.

This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the application of

It used to signal a quiet, anonymous life. Now privacy is a premium that may be out of reach for ordinary citizens.