Here’s a cartoon I created about Big Data and information gathering that I haven’t yet posted. Hope you enjoy it!
Cartoon on Big Data and Information Gathering
Category: Personal Data
Posts about Personal Data by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
Privacy Training for Data Privacy Day
For Data Privacy Day this year, I’m happy to make available for the day two new short privacy training programs I created in collaboration with Intel. Ordinarily, I require a login to view my training programs, but for this day, I have put them outside the wall for anyone to see. So click on the […]
The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information
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:
Personal Information: The Benefits and Risks of De-Identification
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.”
Rethinking the Concept of “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII)
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:
Blacklisted and Rebuffed by Canada
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:
Requiring Banks to Disclose Identity Theft Statistics
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:
The AOL Privacy Debacle: Internet Search Queries and Privacy
Recently, AOL released about 20 million search queries of over 650,000 users to researchers. As the Washington Post reported:
Do No Evil and Perhaps Do Some Good: Google, Privacy, and Business Records
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:
Government vs. Google
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 […]