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[…] Happy New Year from the Future of Privacy Forum!  And thank you for following our work and for your support in advancing privacy issues.  Here is our 2013 List of Ins and Outs for your enjoyment. On behalf of the entire team at FPF we wish you a fulfilling New Year. To receive regular […]

[…] put together this survey of app best practices documents to contribute to the upcoming NTIA discussions: A Brief FPF Survey of Mobile Application Best Practices The August 22, 2012 multistakeholder meeting will be the second in a series of NTIA-convened discussions concerning mobile application transparency. Webcast: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2012/privacy-multistakeholder-meeting-webcast-8-22-2012 Moderated Conference Bridge: dial-in – (888-957-9870 or 210-839-8914) […]

[…] Homeland Security . The Secretary of Homeland Security currently define s “of ficial purposes” as present ation of driver’s licenses and identification cards for boarding commercially operated airline flights and entering federal buildings and nuclear power plants. Individual Transaction Identity as presented Transaction Identity on record Verification Individual Digital Identity Public or Private sector […]

[…] as the interviewees have had a chance to review this 17article and correct any inaccuracies in the statements attributed to them, they will be referred to by number, not byname (e.g. Interviewee 1, Interviewee 2, etc.). The published version of this article will cite interviewees by name. -6-conduct for banks, insurance companies, direct marketers, […]

[…] only 67 orders to intercept “computer[s] or email (electronic)” reflecting that “law enforcement agencies rarely engage in real -time interception of internet communications …. [I]t is often cheaper and easier for them to do it after the fact rather than in real -time”). 372 But see In re Ap plication , 534 F. Supp. […]

[…] is deliberately addressing its privacy -utility tradeoffs through the implementation of differential privacy mechanisms. Disallowing such queries represents a meanin gful sacrifice of utility. For example, an airline presently cannot target an advertisement for discount fares from RDU to LAX to Raleigh -Durham area Facebook users who have 10 or more friends in Los […]

[…] average costs when the personal information they rely on for revenue is generated or, more specifically, digitized by the consumer . Information is costly to produce and cheap to reproduce. Microsoft, for example, spends a great deal to produce new versions of its Office Suite, which includes the popular programs Word and Excel. The […]

[…] or will likely hav e for the foreseeable future. 2.2 Prejudice Emrys Westacott has claimed that machines can be fa irer than people. “Highway police issuing speeding tickets, being human, are unlikely to be completely consistent and impartial. Their decisions may be affected by the race, sex, class, age, appearance, and manner of the […]

[…] for Book Buys Faces High Bar , WASH . POST , Apr. 10, 1998, at B01. 3/8/2012 9:42 AM 2012 ] The Perils of Social Reading 11 phone sex novella Vox and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 41 But the important lesson for present purposes is that if it had wanted to, or if […]

[…] confidential .40 Indeed, e xplicit contracts for confidentiality are simply too clunky for most social interac tions where they would be useful. 41 Garfield argued that a number of problems arise when trying to use informal contracts of confidentiality to protect privacy interests. 42 Eugene Volokh asserted that contracts, particularly implied obligations of confi […]