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[…] media users with political ads remains an ongoing issue today.”  Although GDPR does capture the activity of political actors in Europe, guidance in the form of a Code of Conduct for political advertisers would be welcome, according to a new opinion from the European Data Protection Supervisor. How can we support more legitimate research […]

[…] a “black box” that is inevitably plagued by bias and potential injustice. While recognizing that algorithms are man-made artifacts, written and edited by humans in order to code decision-making processes, the article argues that a distinction should be drawn between “policy-neutral algorithms,” which lack an active editorial hand, and “policy-directed algorithms,” which are intentionally framed […]

[…] Deletion Advertising using Smart TV Data is a Nascent, but Growing Industry Conclusions   What Makes a TV “Smart?” Smart TVs – or, as they are often promoted, “intelligent TVs,” are TVs that connect to the Internet to allow users to access streaming video services (such as Netflix or Hulu), other online media or […]

[…] reported that an interactive “Global Heat Map,” published by fitness data company Strava, had revealed sensitive information about the location and movements of servicemen and women in Iraq, Syria, and other conflict zones. The data in Strava’s Global Heat Map originates from individual users’ fitness tracking data, although the company took steps to de-identify […]

[…] regarding the ePrivacy Regulation and the implementation of the GDPR to ensure better protection against physical tracking? Can self-regulation initiatives such as the Future of Privacy Forum code of conduct help improve the situation? Privacy engineering, lingua franca for transatlantic privacy Wednesday, January 24, 11.45, La Cave The Future of Privacy Forum is organizing […]

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) released its 2018 Code of Conduct yesterday, consolidating the rules for online and mobile behavioral advertising (interest-based advertising). NAI, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC, is the leading self-regulatory association for digital advertising, with over 100 members and a formalized internal review mechanism.

[…] within the tech sector.” A progressive political group “filed FOIA requests seeking the publicly available student directories to get student cell phone numbers at every one of Virginia’s 39 public colleges. Of those, 18 schools, including Tech and Radford, complied.” This will lead to legislation banning directory information disclosures for this purpose next spring. […]

[…] Protect Their Students & the Constitution,” Berkman-Klein Center, March 6, 2017. Program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other exchange program participants, 8 U.S. Code § 1372. Retention and Reporting of Information for F, J, and M Nonimmigrants; Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), 67 FR 76255. U.S. Department of […]

[…] the Office of the United States Special Counsel, and both General Counsel and Assistant Inspector General for Investigations with the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Jim has over 20 years of experience in the public sector, including service as a deployed Marine Infantry Officer and a U.S. Department of Justice […]

[…] Shadow Brokers. An initial lesson is to remind us that leaks can and do happen from intelligence agencies, from Edward Snowden, through the publication of CIA hacker code, to the Shadow Brokers release of NSA hacker tools. In an era where leaks happen at scale and get disseminated globally, agencies face a “declining half […]