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[…] 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 […]

[…] in the ongoing Fourth Amendment discourse. It is currently fiercely debated in the context of location -based data — especially that which can be collected by mobile phone operators. For instance, in a c ontroversial opinion, the D.C. Circuit chose to restrict governmental collection of location -based data over a long time period while […]

[…] (holding that emp loyers violate section 8(a)(1) if employer s engage in activities that chill their employees ’ freedom to exercise section 7 rights); Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., 302 F.3d 868, 884 (9th Cir. 2002) (determining that employer surveillance often causes emp loyees to refrain from exercising their rights under federal labor law […]