CBS/AP reports: Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing every aspect of their lives for two decades to help scientists collect data for what is being called “The Human Project.” Researchers will analyze everything from cellphone usage, Google searches, credit card swipes and even blood samples for [Read More…]
Another paper workshopped at PLSC was Amy Gajda’s paper, Privacy, Press, and a Right to Be Forgotten in the United States. Here’s the Abstract: When the European Court of Justice in effect accepted a Right to Be Forgotten in 2014, many suggested that a similar right would be neither welcomed nor [Read More…]
One of the papers workshopped at PLSC was Ari Ezra Waldman’s paper, Designing Without Privacy. Ari’s paper, which will be published in Houston Law Review, won the Best Paper Award from IAPP. Here’s the abstract: In Privacy on the Ground, the law and information scholars Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan showed that [Read More…]
Paul Otto and Brian Kennedy report: Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a technology assessment of the Internet of Things (IoT) for Congressional members of the IoT Caucus. The GAO report offers an introduction to IoT; reviews the many uses and their associated benefits that connected devices may [Read More…]