Encryption wars flare again, the EU’s GDPR is forcing changes at Apple and Facebook (he’s only doing ’cause he has to, folks!), our mixed feelings about social media and privacy, faces and fingerprints are being collected, and more, more, more about Facebook, big data, analytics, and our loss of control over privacy.
Category: News and Updates
Privacy News Update for March 23
More than you ever wanted to know about Facebook’s privacy problems, threats to student privacy, CLOUD Act becomes law, TSA device searches, police using Google location data, how the EU privacy law will change the web, corporate surveillance, broadband privacy, and other news.
Privacy News Update: Cambridge Analytica and Facebook
On March 17 – 18, 2018, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Britain’s Channel Four published stories detailing how Cambridge Analytica employed a third-party researcher to harvest 50 million Facebook users’ profiles for use in political campaigns without the
Privacy News and Views for March 16
Featured Make A Giant Leap for Patron Privacy: Prepare For Choose Privacy Week 2018 With A Free Webinar On Library Privacy Audits | Choose Privacy Week Let’s Encrypt takes free “wildcard” certificates live | Ars Technica Resources for libraries on
Privacy News and Views for March 9
Featured Privacy at the Margins | International Journal of Communications “Privacy is considered a human right, but achieving privacy in a networked age requires a certain level of privilege. This Special Section on Privacy at the Margins brings together nine original