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On Monday, the Future of Privacy Forum joined with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, Center for Democracy & Technology, The Constitution Project, and Electronic Frontier Foundation to write the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) about its proposed rules regarding For-Hire Vehicle dispatch apps. We were especially concerned with the requirement […]

[…] some mechanism to justify what is going on to either regulators or 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 […]

Lessons from Fair Lending Law for Fair Marketing and Big Data Where discrimination presents a real threat, big data need not necessary lead us to a new frontier. Existing laws, including the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and other fair lending laws, provide a number of protections that are relevant when big data is used […]

[…] Bering Media David Hoffman Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer, Intel Lara Kehoe Hoffman Privacy and Data Security Counsel, Autodesk Marcia Hoffman Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Chris Hoofnagle Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s information privacy programs and senior fellow to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Jane […]

[…] of uncertainty may weigh differently depending on the risk profile of a given culture or society. The United States, for example, established by explorers who pushed the frontier in a lawless atmosphere, continues to highly reward entrepreneurship, innovation, research, and discovery. The quintessential American hero is the lone entrepreneur who against all odds weaves […]

[…] US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement and the relationship between privacy and intellectual property. Prior to joining FPF, Joe worked at Public Knowledge, the Library of Congress, The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition, Joe currently also works as an Associate for TeachPrivacy, an online training and compliance […]

[…] 4 A second well -known Internet aphorism explains why this is the case: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it, ” as Elec tronic Frontier Foundation co -founder John Gilmore once noted. 5 But this insight applies to all classes of information. Whether we are talking about copyright policy, cybersecurity, state […]

[…] the Boston Consulting Group, Rethinking Per sonal Data: Strengthening Trust (May 2012 ), http://www.weforum.org/reports/rethinking – personal -data -strengthening -trust ; McKinsey Global Institute, Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity 116 (June 2011 ). http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/big_data_the_next_frontier_for_innovati on . xix Pew Research Center, Teens, Social Media and Privacy, Berk man Center 8, 41 […]

[…] to Ask , The Atlantic (April 3, 2012). 6 Amit Kumar Patnaik, Data Mining and Its Current Research Directions , a paper presented at International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing retrieved at http://ficta.in/attachments/article/55/07%20Data%20Mining%20an d%20Its%20Current%20Research% 20Directions.pdf 7 Gary M. Weiss and Brian Davison, Data Mining , In Handbook of Technology Management H. Bidgoli (ed.), […]

[…] or un certain ty may weigh different ly depending on the risk profile of differing societies. The U.S., for example, established by explorers who push ed the frontier in a lawless atmosphere , continues to highly reward entrepreneurship, innovation, research and discovery. The quintessential American hero is the lone entrepreneur who against all odds […]