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By Ryan Calo on April 18, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Highlights of Thursday’s FCC hearing at Stanford in no particular order: Read more about Stanford FCC Hearing Highlights
By Ryan Calo on April 17, 2008 at 2:55 pm
The MIT/Stanford VLAB hosted an interesting event this week on the impact of personal genome services on the healthcare industry. Privacy was discussed, but not featured. Here is a thoughtful analysis of the privacy issues around genomic research, generally, from Nature Reviews. Read more about Personal Genome Services
By Ryan Calo on April 16, 2008 at 11:26 am
The European Commission’s Article 29 Working Party has released its “Opinion on data protection issues related to search engines,” recommending a shorter retention period for search logs. Today, industry standards run between 13 (Yahoo!, AOL) and 18 months (Google, Microsoft), following which the log is partially (Google) or completely (Microsoft) anonymized. The Article 29 Working Party report can be found here. Read more about EC Article 29 Working Party Releases Search Engine Report
By Ryan Calo on April 15, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Nestled in among the latest round of public comments solicited by the Federal Trade Commission on “behavioral advertising” was a little gem: a filing by the Newspaper Association of America arguing that online news outlets have a First Amendment right to track the activities of website visitors in order to target advertisements to them. Read more about The Newspaper Association of America Misreads The FTC
