Ewen MacAskill reports: The new director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, has played down the damage caused by Edward Snowden‘s revelations – in contrast to claims by his predecessor and British counterparts that it was one of the worst breaches in intelligence history. Rogers said in an interview with the New York Times that some…
Month: June 2014
Facebook’s Psych Experiment: Consent, Privacy, and Manipulation
Dan Solove writes about the Facebook Experiment that caused a storm of controversy over the weekend. This weekend, the results of an experiment conducted by researchers and Facebook were released, creating a fierce debate over the ethics of the endeavor. The experiment involved 689,003 people on Facebook whose News Feed was adjusted to contain either…
IRS Admits Leaking Personal Information In Prop 8 Debate
Bruce Carroll writes: In all of this past week’s flurry IRS news: Lois Lerner and other IRS’ officials hard drives crashing, emails showing Lerner targeted Sen. Chuck Grassley, and the IRS Commissioner telling Congress they’ve done nothing wrong — some news got lost in the shuffle. The IRS did do something very wrong, admitted it and paid a significant fine…
Academics call for guidelines on use of online learners’ data
Chris Parr reports: Guidelines to ensure the ethical use of data gathered from online learners need to be developed, to prevent the misuse of personal information, a group of academics has said. Delegates at the Asilomar Convention for Learning Research in Higher Education, which took place in California earlier this month, have produced a framework…