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[…] app then enables features. Beacons positioned near an airport security checkpoint might trigger your airline’s app to show your boarding pass. A beacon in a museum might signal the museum app to show information about the artist of a painting you’re looking at. Retail-store beacons may help users locate products or indicate sale items. […]

[…] The need for transparent privacy policies in the field of mobile location analytics was the genesis behind the development of FPF’s Mobile Location Analytics “Code of Conduct”. Signatories of this binding set of privacy principles must provide consumer with clear opt-out options for tracking by MAC address or similar identifiers. Consumers can easily and […]

[…] FPF Executive Director Jules Polonetsky. “And, in a gridlocked Congress where federal legislation faces challenges, the Pledge creates an immediate and enforceable legal code for companies that sign on. The Administration was instrumental in helping to get the word out, and its support early on was important to many companies being interested.” In October […]

[…] larger issue of government surveillance. A Renewed Conversation about “Going Dark” Cordero noted that the concept of “going dark” is nothing new, but stressed that there were significant differences between how the debate was waged in the 1990s versus today. Whereas previously the FBI was concerned about the ability to engage in real-time surveillance, […]

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 is […]

[…] notifications from particular friends as ‘sensitive’ or ‘blocked’ to control their visibility. You can also turn on a Priority mode, which acts like a Do Not Disturb sign and allows the phone to only show the most important notifications. BLE Mac-Address Rotation Bluetooth MAC addresses broadcast by mobile devices are one of the identifiers […]

[…] email account or a company’s spokesperson account – from common security threats. After registering the device with your Google Account, the YubiKey can be easily used to sign into Google services by simply installing the key into a USB port and tapping it when prompted. No more reaching for your cell phone every time […]

[…] efforts on student privacy include a resource web site at studentprivacycompass.org, and the launch of a Student Privacy Pledge with SIIA and leading tech companies.  See www.studentprivacypledge.org to sign on to the pledge or for more details. To learn more about FPF’s ongoing student privacy work, contact Brenda Leong, FPF Education Privacy Counsel at [email protected].

[…] regarding the collection, maintenance, and use of student personal information. An initial leadership group of major school service providers 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 […]

[…] location services – with your permission. iPhone apps must use Apple’s location services, while Google Play apps generally use Google’s location services. These location services leverage GPS signals and the location of nearby cell towers to estimate where you are. In recent years, these location services also began noting the MAC addresses of nearby […]