The Best Privacy Blog
For quite some time, I’ve been relying on the blog Pogo Was Right to keep up to date on privacy news.
Author: Daniel Solove
Posts by Daniel Solove
Robert Morse’s Response on the US News Law School Rankings
Over at WSJ Blog, Ashby Jones contacted Robert Morse to get his reaction to my post about how raters should fill out the US News law school rankings forms: We caught up with Bob Morse, the director of data services for U.S. News, who said in his estimation, the 1-5 options generally speaking matched up […]
How Identity Theft Is Like the Ford Pinto
Professor James Grimmelmann likes to shop at Kohl’s. So much so that he applied for credit at Kohl’s. And he got it. The problem is that James Grimmelmann didn’t really apply for anything. It was an identity thief.
How to Fill Out the US News Law School Rankings Form
Every year, US News compiles its law school rankings by relying heavily on reputation ratings by law professors (mainly deans and associate deans) and practitioners and judges. They are asked to assign a score (from 1 to 5) for the roughly 200 law schools on the form. A 5 is the highest score and a […]
Data Security: When Will the Thick Skulls Learn?
The Wall Street Journal reports the theft of 3.3 million student loan records, including Social Security numbers: Company and federal officials said they believed last week’s theft of identity data on 3.3 million people with student loans was the largest-ever breach of such information and could affect as many as 5% of all federal student-loan […]
The SeaWorld Killer Whale Death Video and the Right to Privacy
Jessica Bennett at Newsweek brought my attention to a story about the family of the killer whale trainer (Dawn Brancheau) who was killed while training the whale at SeaWorld: Brancheau’s family announced this week that they would seek an injunction to protect the release of the death imagery, captured by SeaWorld’s surveillance cameras on Feb. […]
Notable Privacy and Security Books 2009
Here’s a list of notable privacy books published in 2009.
Credit Cards, Data Mining, and Privacy
The New York Times Magazine has an interesting article entitled What Does Your Credit Card Company Know About You? From the article:
What Is Empathy? Obama’s Philosophy of Law and the Next Supreme Court Justice
There has been a lot of discussion on what President Obama meant when he said he wanted to choose a person who would judge with “empathy” for the U.S. Supreme Court. When articulating his decision to vote against Chief Justice John Roberts, Obama noted that 95 percent of cases would be relatively straightforward where most […]
Partisan News: The Return of a Nasty Weed
The New York Times has an interesting story about the slow dwindling audience share of CNN: