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Conference about the Future of News
Next week, the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society (CIS) is hosting a conference titled The Future of Journalism: Unpacking the Rhetoric. The…
Notice by Design
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Thanks from WhatApp.org!
The response to WhatApp.org has been wonderful, thanks! We now have over 20 registered and approved experts from a wide variety of sectors, including privacy c…
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Rehberg v. Hodges: Constitutional Protection for Email Privacy
In Rehberg v. Hodges, EFF is asking the 11th Circuit to fix an earlier opinion wrongly suggesting that the contents of stored emails are not protected by the Fo…
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WhatApp.org: Now In Beta
There's an app for everything these days. But users often don't have a complete picture of the applications they download and use. Privacy policies are…
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Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think
Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges. User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably thi…
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Sweeping Telecom Data Retention Law Held Unconstitutional in Germany
The German Constitutional Court (GCC) this morning struck down a law that imposed on private telecom operators and service providers such as ISPs and telephone…
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The Italian Job: The Real Reason the Google Convictions are Bad Precedent
I was pleased to be interviewed last night on BBC America World News (live!) about the convictions of three senior Google executives by an Italian court for pri…
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One-Way Mirror Society
Pam Dixon of World Privacy Forum has released an eye-opening new report (PDF) about offline consumer surveillance. Pam describes a quiet revolution in digital…
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The Privacy/Law Enforcement Legal Whipsaw
Even as the issue of privacy continues to confound much brighter people than me, the related problem of securing the Internet has also been getting a great deal…
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Taxonomy of Social Networking and Privacy
Security expert Bruce Schneier today posts about the taxonomy of social networking data. He describes five types of data: "1. Service data. Service data…
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Facebook privacy flap reveals bad PR more than bad policy
I write today on CNET about several recent privacy gaffes and missteps, notably the damp squib that was Facebook's new privacy policy and tools. I have som…
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Isn't It Ironic? The Fourth Estate's Assault on Free Speech
It’s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it’s…