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Facebook can infer a lot about you—and it uses that information to show you ads.
Reasons notice-and-consent is shit.
"No PII!" dodge in action: Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, agreed with Vickery the lack of names was insignificant. "That is a massive leak. These are very valuable data fields, constituting the essential details of a core of American households," Hall said.
Nobody cares about privacy, right? Right?
If your shit is predictive, eventually we get to evaluate those predictions.
A whole chapter! With examples!
BrainCo headbands will collect biometric brainwave data on over 1 million students to create “the world’s biggest brainwave database.” But there’s no privacy policy.
Users shouldn’t give up their basic Fourth Amendment privacy rights when they use a smartphone to make calls, write texts and emails or access their private personal information
Libraries have long counted up the books on their shelves to show their value. That meant Harvard University’s library (with 18.9-million books) was ...
Data protection laws are about controlling triangulation, not (just) direct privacy At the end of May 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in Europe. It cre…
A subset of the data used by the project is now available under an Open Data Commons licence. The data contains final grade and library usage figures for 33,074 students studying undergradute degrees at UK universities.
March 5, 2018 — Revised and updated from the original post on November 10, 2017. A slide deck from EDUCAUSE made the rounds on Twitter last week, with many folks expressing shock about libr…
"We can tell that engineering undergraduate students are in the library, on the quiet floor!" (I'm sure the Ecole Polytechnique massacre perp will be tha-rilled. Point: identification of GROUPS can be problematic too.)
All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use.1 When users recognize or fear that their privacy or confidentiality
There are probably numerous technology solutions, both high tech and low, that can help to stop these situations from arising. However, when thinking about these issues, it is also a good time to consider how much information the library needs from individuals in the first place.