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It appears to run afoul of the Fourth Amendment.
Hosted images mean better privacy, faster load times, and less competition for Google.
Look up “big data” (with the quotes) today on Google, and you’ll results that look like this: Basically, a heap of hype. The only visible organic search results are a Wikipedia ar…
ECPA is the law that is supposed to protect your digital data from unreasonable search. What’s wrong with it? Tons. What does that mean? Your data is often not protected. Learn all about it in the infographic below. Even more […]
Big Data has not one privacy problem, but two. We are accustomed to talking about surveillance of data subjects. But Big Data also enables disconcertingly close
The speed of technological progress is enabling rapid change in our societies and threatening the principles we claim to hold dear. We have to decide -- now -- whether we want to accept or resist the loss of our freedoms.
In which Google describes how they figure out demographic info.
the ACLU s version of ordering a pizza in the future.
scary !
scary !
The Edward Snowden affair raises an obvious question: Why is encrypted e-mail so rare in the first place?
I had a great time at Harvard Wednesday giving my talk (prezi here) about modeling challenges. The audience was fantastic and truly interdisciplinary, and they pushed back and challenged me in a gr…
Great class warmup exercise.
... and replace it with something worse!
Social networking site says it was unnecessary, "sorry for any inconvenience."
"Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone." "Well, it's my …
Credit bureaux sell personal data indiscriminately, including to an identity-theft outfit.
Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show.
Email metadata. Encryption works; the NSA knows less about GMail users than other webmailers, because GMail uses https by default.
May make it easier to follow privacy-minded users on the darknet.