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By Omer Tene • October 1, 2012 at 11:30 pm
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently decided in United States v. Skinner that police does not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile phones (see dicussion by Jennifer Granick here). Read more » about On government access to communications data
By Omer Tene • September 20, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Much has been written over the past couple of years about “big data” (See, for example, here and here and here). Read more » about Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics
By Omer Tene • September 19, 2012 at 9:32 pm
By Omer Tene • September 1, 2012 at 5:39 pm
Photo: Basking & masking. In China, where sun tan is negatively stigmatized, beach goers wear masks. Read more » about Privacy, Masks and Religion
By Omer Tene • July 30, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Photo: Like its namesake, the European Data Protection Directive ("DPD"), this Mercedes is old, German-designed, clunky and noisy – yet effective. [Photo: Omer Tene] Read more » about There is no new thing under the sun
By Omer Tene • July 26, 2012 at 10:44 pm
I am delighted to have been invited to guest blog on Concurring Opinions for the next few weeks. I am re-posting here with permission a shorter version of my posts there. Read more » about Privacy: For the Rich or for the Poor?
By Omer Tene • November 15, 2011 at 2:06 am
Digital identity is used online not only in contexts requiring strong authentication, such as e-government or online banking, but also in less formal interactions where anonymous, pseudonymous, and disaggregated identities can suffice. Increasingly, social networking service (SNS) operators are harnessing their broad user base and wealth of personal information to become vital components of the Internet's identity layer. Read more » about Me, Myself and I: Aggregated and Disaggregated Identities on Social Networking Services
By Omer Tene • October 12, 2011 at 2:55 pm
This blog post is re-posted with permission from the Center for Democracy & Technology blog (see here). Read more » about To Track or “Do Not Track” – that is the Question
By Omer Tene • October 8, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Turkey, the land which national poet Nazim Hikmet described as “stretching like a mare’s head into the Mediterranean” is asserting itself as a regional power – economically (with 8% GDP growth; 63 million mobile subscribers; and 30 million Facebook users); diplomatically (with the Arab world in turmoil; Iran isolated; and Israel suffering from listless leadership); and culturally (see the Economist’s review of the Istanbul biennial here). Read more » about Privacy and Data Protection in Turkey: (Inching) Towards a European Framework
By Omer Tene • September 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
In a highly important decision, the Tel Aviv District Court annulled this week a forum selection clause in a clickwrap contract, holding the user was not sufficiently aware of the choice of foreign forum nor of the fact he was contracting with a foreign company; and has not clearly consented to such choice. Read more » about Israeli court says no to forum selection clause in clickwrap agreement
By Omer Tene • March 26, 2011 at 12:25 pm
The FTC’s Do Not Track (DNT) proposal would essentially provide online users with a convenient universal opt-out of …. well, what exactly? Ad targeting? (But then why not call it “Do Not Target”?) Online data collection? (But surely this can’t be true given that online data collection is necessary for various legitimate purposes besides targeting ads). Read more » about What happens online stays online: Comments on "Do Not Track"
By Omer Tene • March 21, 2011 at 9:51 am
An interesting case with big privacy implications looming: A Kentucky Court of Appeals holds you don’t need a person’s permission to tag them in a Facebook photo (LaLonde vs. LaLonde). Read more » about You've Been Tagged
By Omer Tene • March 4, 2011 at 8:47 am
It’s that time of year and more than 2000 privacy professionals are descending on Washington DC for the grandest of all grand privacy conferences: the IAPP Global Privacy Summit. Government and corporate Chief Privacy Officers (CPOs), data and consumer protection regulators, academics, lawyers and technologists participate in an endless array of professional and social activities in a networking “hop until you drop”. Read more » about Privacy Professionals of the World, Unite!
By Omer Tene • February 28, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Check out my blog post @ CDT on review of the EU Data Protection Directive. Excerpt: Read more » about Review of the EU Privacy Directive
By Omer Tene • February 13, 2011 at 5:49 am
I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards Informational Self-Determination on the Internet”. Read more » about Privacy and quantum physics; privacy as religion
