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[…] is Custom Audiences? Facebook’s Custom Audiences is a tool that allows advertisers to upload their own marketing lists of users’ contact information — typically, email addresses or phone numbers — and to target advertisements to those same users on Facebook. In order to protect privacy, the uploaded list is first “hashed” or encrypted (Facebook […]

[…] some of the problems raised by the study. FERPA and State Student Privacy Laws Governing Schools “One bright spot in the report is that, among the small number of school districts that responded to the researcher’s requests for information, none appeared to be selling or sharing student information to advertisers,” noted Bill Fitzgerald, Project […]

[…] Under IDEA Part B regulations, re-disclosures also cannot occur without written parental consent or an applicable exception. Implications The college admission exam technical assistance letter has a number of implications for stakeholders. Because the technical assistance and its implications are layered, more information and impressions will become apparent over the next few weeks. Here […]

[…] Autonomous Vehicles. The CPUC is a consumer protection agency that oversees, among other topics, provision of passenger service in the state. The proposed decision called for a number of criteria to be met by companies seeking to operate AV passenger service, including reporting of communications between passengers and remote operators of driverless AVs, as […]

[…] name, profile photo and email address, unless they get special approval. I just checked and my Facebook profile is linked to dozens of apps. I turned a number of them off. A few are super useful – when I use TripAdvisor, I love seeing reviews by my FB friends listed first, so I can […]

[…] to catch bullies.” Virginia has introduced a few bills after 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.” The first bill would simply “remove student cell phone numbers and email addresses from publicly available directories,” but was “scrapped” […]

[…] information about the use of this TV will no longer be uploaded to Sony Corporation . . . Information already uploaded to Sony Corporation with a unique number shall be deleted or converted to anonymized statistical data within approximately six months. The viewing history data stored in this TV will also be deleted and […]

[…] remaining in the data.” Repeatedly, researchers have shown that in a big data world, even mundane data points, such as the battery life remaining on an individual’s phone, can serve as potent identifiers singling out an individual from the crowd. Until recently, however, almost all conversations around open data related to the risks of […]

[…] of releasing particular datasets and for assessing and mitigating re-identification risks in open data. Currently, both Seattle’s Open Data and Privacy programs are already collaborating on a number of initiatives related to recommendations called out in the report. Additionally, the programs are also implementing an updated internal process for reviewing new open datasets for […]

Computers Privacy and Data Protection conference  (CPDP) kicks off this week in Brussels, and the theme this year is “The Internet of Bodies”. The conference will gather 400 speakers for 80 panels to set the stage for the privacy and data protection conversation in Europe for 2018. And this is such an important year for data protection – not only the General Data Protection Regulation becomes applicable in May, but also the text of the new ePrivacy Regulation will likely be finalized.