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The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.
Corporations are increasingly relying on algorithms to make business decisions and that raises new legal questions.
Algorithms are producing profiles of you. What do they say? You probably don’t have the right to know
The ethics of archiving stuff off the web w/o consent.
The question of our age might turn out to be the reverse of the Turing test: will people become programmable like machines?
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the multibillion-dollar market for anonymized medical data — but existing legal protections are full of holes.
“We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime in the city, was created with a predictive algorithm that focused on factors including, per the Chicago Tribune, “his or her acquaintances and their arrest histories – and where any of those associates have been shot in the past.”
Society of American Archivists
If it isn’t a panacea, de-identification remains a critical part of every privacy pro’s toolbox. At a workshop earlier this month, the Future of Privacy Forum
The state of social science is strong, not weak.
Some consumer websites say they will not sell users’ data, but unrestricted-data clauses allow them to transfer it if a merger or other transaction occurs.
Politwoop's API access revoked without warning; had archived posts, deletion times.
Facebook would like to know whether it’s bad for you. Some social science research suggests that people who use social media more are less satisfied...
If you were on Facebook in January 2012, there is a chance that it tried to make you sad. If you were on OkCupid, there is a chance that it tried to match you u
Back in 2006, I was mainly into Google for the cute stuff. Take one search session from October of that year, when I keyed in kitten, then sleeping...
The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and
This paper examines Google's behavior in enterprise contracts in the education sector with the critical question of whether it uses data-mining and profile for its own commercial purposes, in conflict with conflicts and institutional obligations
Very nice decision flow chart for whether/how to share sensitive data.