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Taking Trust Seriously in Privacy Law
Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
Woodrow Hartzog Read more about Taking Trust Seriously in Privacy Law
Opinion: Twitter's privacy blunder
By Evan Selinger, Columnist and Woodrow Hartzog, Contributor Read more about Opinion: Twitter's privacy blunder
Not ‘digital exhaust;’ rather ‘digital fossils’
Recently a member of Congress got into some pretty serious hot water over allegations he accepted numerous unethical, and perhaps illegal, favors including flights on airplanes. The Associated Press, which broke the story, documented these flights in several different ways, but perhaps the most interesting was by examining the location data embedded in pictures that the lawmaker posted on his Instagram account. This “metadata” (data about data) exposed the locations of the politician, who was an inveterate social media documenter of his travels, when the pictures were taken. The story is Read more about Not ‘digital exhaust;’ rather ‘digital fossils’
Facebook calls in the philosophers
Facebook's announcement — establishing guidelines, review processes, training and enhanced transparency for research projects — marks another milestone in the emergence of data ethics as a crucial component of corporate governance programs.
With the proliferation of personal data generated from smartphones, apps, social networks and ubiquitous sensors, companies have come under increasing pressure to put in place internal institutional review processes more befitting of academic philosophy departments than corporate boardrooms. Read more about Facebook calls in the philosophers
The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions
Download the paper here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376209
The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions
Danielle Keats Citron
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Yale University - Yale Information Society Project; Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Frank A. Pasquale III
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Yale University - Yale Information Society Project
January 7, 2014 Read more about The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions
What You Don't Say About Data Can Still Hurt You
Written by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger.
Big data generates big myths. To help society set realistic expectations, the right kind of skepticism is needed. Read more about What You Don't Say About Data Can Still Hurt You
Privacy and Big Data: Making Ends Meet
Privacy and Big Data by Jules Polonetsky & Omer Tene Read more about Privacy and Big Data: Making Ends Meet
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