Figure 1 Identifying customers that visit multiple retail locations for the same store(Source: Fast Company, “Here’s What Brick-And-Mortar Stores See When They Track You”) Last week, the FTC

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"In The Trial, the problem is not inhibited behavior but rather a suffocating powerlessness and vulnerability created by the court system's use of personal data and its denial to the protagonist of any knowledge of or participation in the process. The harms are bureaucratic ones—indifference, error, abuse, frustration, and lack of transparency and accountability."

Illegally breaking into licensed library content doesn’t require sophisticated hacking skills—just a legitimate network account. Higher education recently discovered such accounts for sale on the Internet. Do we have good options for preventing thefts?

The companies that sell information about how much money you make — and whether you’re pregnant, divorced, or trying to lose weight — are facing new scrutiny.

A new study by KU Leuven-iMinds researchers has uncovered that 145 of the Internet’s 10,000 top websites use hidden scripts to extract a device fingerprint from users' browsers. Device fingerprinting circumvents legal restrictions imposed on the use of cookies and ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. The findings suggest that secret tracking is more widespread than previously thought.

Facebook's introduction of a cross-device ID last fall was a big deal in marketing circles. Based on the company's direct relationships with its 1.4 billion users, it offered a viable alternative to the broken cookie. Since then, Facebook has been on a communications and sales blitz, driving awareness and adoption of its "people-based marketing" product... Continue reading »

By exposing the NSA's spying regime, Snowden forced the Justice Department to shut down a separate phone-surveillance operation.

Beginning at the first Bush administration, feds got billions of call records.

WHAT THE WHAT.

From ID-card swipes to online discussion forums, administrations are increasingly tracking digital footprints.

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“State healthcare laws are all over the place; it is fun; it’s why we’re all here,” said Web Hull, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, privacy, data protection, compliance advisor

"I haven't changed it much simply because I don't feel it's worth the effort."