Collaborate Disseminate
This is a fantastic Q&A with Cornell Tech Professor Helen Nissenbaum on data privacy and why it’s wrong to focus on consent. I’m not going to pull a quote, because you should read the whole thing…. Continue reading Helen Nissenbaum on Data Privacy and Consent
The California legislature unanimously passed the strongest data privacy law in the nation. This is great news, but I have a lot of reservations. The Internet tech companies pressed to get this law passed out of self-defense. A ballot initiative was already going to be voted on in November, one with even stronger data privacy protections. The author of that… Continue reading California Passes New Privacy Law
When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the Internet. Right now, the only way we can force these companies to take our privacy more seriously is through the market. But the market is broken. First,… Continue reading New Data Privacy Regulations
This seems like an absolute disaster: The very short version is that a UK bank, TSB, which had been merged into and then many years later was spun out of Lloyds Bank, was bought by the Spanish bank Banco Sabadell in 2015. Lloyds had continued to run the TSB systems and was to transfer them over to Sabadell over the… Continue reading TSB Bank Disaster
Turns out, multi-million dollar yachts are no more secure than anything else out there: The ease with which ocean-going oligarchs or other billionaires can be hijacked on the high seas was revealed at a superyacht conference held in a private members club in central London this week. […] Murray, a cybercrime expert at BlackBerry, was demonstrating how criminal gangs could… Continue reading Yacht Security
Last November, I gave a talk at the TEDMED Conference on health and medical data privacy. The talk is online…. Continue reading My TEDMED Talk on Medical Data Privacy
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order affecting the privacy rights of non-US citizens with respect to data residing in the US. Here’s the relevant text: Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the… Continue reading New Rules on Data Privacy for Non-US Citizens
You can edit anyone’s information you want: The question, boiled down, was haunting: Want to see how easy it would be to get into someone’s voter registration and make changes to it? The offer from Steve Klink — a Lafayette-based public consultant who works mainly with Indiana public school districts — was to use my voter registration record as a… Continue reading Indiana’s Voter Registration Data Is Frighteningly Insecure
You decide…. Continue reading Scam or Satire?