Collaborate Disseminate
Used Tesla components, sold on eBay, still contain personal information, even after a factory reset. This is a decades-old problem. It’s a problem with used hard drives. It’s a problem with used photocopiers and printers. It will be a problem with IoT devices. It’ll be a problem with everything, until we decide that data deletion is a priority…. Continue reading Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information
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
There’s a new trend in Silicon Valley startups; companies are not collecting and saving data on their customers: In Silicon Valley, there’s a new emphasis on putting up barriers to government requests for data. The Apple-FBI case and its aftermath have tech firms racing to employ a variety of tools that would place customer information beyond the reach of a… Continue reading Companies Not Saving Your Data
Thefts of personal information aren’t unusual. Every week, thieves break into networks and steal data about people, often tens of millions at a time. Most of the time it’s information that’s needed to commit fraud, as happened in 2015 to Experian and the IRS. Sometimes it’s stolen for purposes of embarrassment or coercion, as in the 2015 cases of Ashley… Continue reading Data Is a Toxic Asset
New Research: Rebecca Lipman, "Online Privacy and the Invisible Market for Our Data." The paper argues that notice and consent doesn’t work, and suggests how it could be made to work. Abstract: Consumers constantly enter into blind bargains online. We trade our personal information for free websites and apps, without knowing exactly what will be done with our data. There… Continue reading Notice and Consent