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Today, Re/ code ran an essay by Chris Wolf and Jules Polonetsky, marking the five year signing of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The two discussed big data’s ability to put the “heat on hate,” concluding that while “hese are still the early days of development for big data and civil rights . . . it […]

[…] broadcast by mobile devices are one of the identifiers often tracked by retailers or other venues in order to create location analytics reports.  See FPF’s Smart-Places privacy code for how this works and for opt-out options.  In Lollipop, Bluetooth MAC addresses will  now rotate when the device is scanning (central mode) and advertising (peripheral […]

[…] email accounts to our social media networks, two-factor authentication can be cumbersome and inconvenient. Every time one logs into a different account on a different machine, a code has to be retrieved from a mobile phone. Lose the phone, and you have to hope you have a set of paper-based fallback authentication codes. Enter […]

[…] are joining SIIA and FPF to introduce and sign the Pledge. The group is made up of some of the leading names in education technology, including Amplify, Code.org, DreamBox Learning, Edmodo, Follett, Gaggle, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Knewton, Knovation, Lifetouch, Microsoft, MIND Research Institute, myON (a business unit of Capstone), and Think Through Math. SIIA […]

[…] to Wi-Fi routers. What’s new is the advent of low-powered beacon technologies, where stores, museums, airports or other spaces set up a device that broadcasts a unique code. If your phone has Bluetooth turned on and you download an app that you allow permission to use Bluetooth and location, the app can detect that […]

[…] the perfect catalyst to consider what the value of “privacy” truly is. Privacy as an information on/off switch may be untenable, but privacy as a broader ethical code makes a lot of sense. There are models to learn from. As David points out, other professions are bound by ethical codes, and much of that […]

[…] self-regulatory bodies. Spadea argued that “the answer isn’t more transparency, but better transparency.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Jeremy Gillula recognized the challenge companies face revealing their “ secret sauce,” but encouraged them to look at more way to give consumer more general information about what was going on. Otherwise, he recommended, consumers ought to […]

[…] of tracking much more difficult. However, your device can still be tracked when you are connected to a Wi-Fi network or using Bluetooth.  FPF’s Mobile Location Analytics Code of Conduct governs the practices of the leading location analytics companies and provides an opt-out from mobile location tracking. Visit Smart-Places for more details or to […]

[…] called robots.txt The web pages that are cached and indexed could be the text of the Gettysburg address, the biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the secret recipe for Coca-Cola, or newspaper articles that include peoples’ names.  It is simply a fact that the letters comprising the name “Mario Costeja Gonzalez” could be […]

[…] 1% risk that was computed in the original de-identification analysis . To get to 12.5%, he had to assume that the adversary would know seven different diagnosis codes (not common colloquial terms, but ICD-9 codes) that belong to a particular patient. He states “roughly half of members with 7 or more diagnosis codes are […]