Posts about Personal Data by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
I posted a draft of my new article, Data Is What Data Does: Regulating Use, Harm, and Risk Instead of Sensitive Data. It is just a draft, and I welcome feedback. You can download it for free here: Here’s the abstract: Heightened protection for sensitive data is becoming quite trendy in privacy laws around the […]
Here’s a cartoon I created about Big Data and information gathering that I haven’t yet posted. Hope you enjoy it!
My article, The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information (with Professor Paul Schwartz), is now out in print. You can download the final published version from SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
On Monday, December 5th, I’ll be speaking at a Future of Privacy Forum conference entitled “Personal Information: The Benefits and Risks of De-Identification.”
Professor Paul Schwartz (Berkeley Law School) and I have just posted our new article to SSRN: The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. — (forthcoming Nov. 2011). Here’s the abstract:
So you want to go to Canada, eh? Well, you might get turned away at the border if you have any criminal convictions in your past. Even ones from 20 or 30 years ago. Even minor crimes. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Kudos to my friend Chris Hoofnagle (Samuelson Clinic at Berkeley Law School) who had his paper on SSRN written about by the New York Times:
Recently, AOL released about 20 million search queries of over 650,000 users to researchers. As the Washington Post reported:
I just blogged about the case where the government is seeking search query records from Google. I am very pleased that Google is opposing the government’s subpoena. According to the AP article:
According to the AP: Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration’s demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet’s leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance. Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White […]