Opting Out of Online Data Vendors
The Privacy Rights Clearninghouse provides a very useful list of online data vendors along with URLs and instructions to remove your information from their databases.
View ArticleVolokh Conspiracy: Data-Mining and the Fourth Amendment
The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a Sixth Circuit decision in a Fourth Amendment case that addresses whether querying a database triggers Fourth Amendment protection. The majority concludedthat it does...
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I want my Google Data Privacy
Gene at Fred’s House sounds like one of the multitude who are beginning to embrace the “Google lifestyle”: I look around my desktop and I see Google Reader, Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Toolbar,...
View ArticleAirline Passenger Profiling for Profit
Bruce Schneier discusses an article (subscription required) about a start-up company called Jetera, who plans to combine people’s flight data with their financial & credit data in order to create...
View ArticleNYT Discovers Data-Mining
For some odd reason, the New York Times has an article declaring that data-mining has now gone mainstream: …a wave of sophisticated computing and mathematical analytics that is moving into the...
View ArticleClintons in Relationship with Privacy-Violating Info Broker
Hillary Clinton has been touted as the “privacy candidate” for the 2008 Presidential elections, which is certainly a good reason to consider voting for her (not my sole criterion, but one of the top...
View ArticleMaltego: Data-Mining Tool for the Masses
Information is leverage. Information is power. Information is Maltego. These are the catch-phrases for a South African company that recently released an affordable, user-friendly data mining tool...
View ArticleHow to Share without Spilling the Beans: Towards Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
MIT Technology Review has a brief article highlighting recent research activities in achieving protocols to enable privacy-preserving data mining. The article’s focus is a paper by Andrew Lindell,...
View ArticleNY Times on Online Data Collection and Sharing
Speaking of the need to better educate consumers about digital privacy concerns, today’s New York Times features two articles that shed light on two widespread online data collection practices. The...
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NY Times: “Big Data on Campus”
The New York Times, in collaboration with the Chronicle of Higher Education, has published an excellent article by Marc Parry on “Big Data on Campus: Colleges Awakening to the Opportunity of Data...
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