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Cambridge Analytica and Facebook| Choose Privacy Week (collecting links)
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 consent of the users. On a separate post on the CPW blog, we’ve compiled links to those stories, public reaction to the news, and provided information and links about privacy self defense.
Government Surveillance
Omnibus bill contains CLOUD Act, a win for tech and law enforcement | Axios
Flying with Your Data – ACLU sues the TSA Over Domestic Electronic Device Searches |Privacy + Data Security Insider
Report: Police are now asking Google for data about all mobile devices close to certain crimes | TechCrunch
How Europe is better at protecting data than the U.S. — and what the Stasi and Nazis have to do with it | Marketwatch
Corporate Surveillance
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data | The Atlantic
Mozilla stops Facebook ads amid data privacy concerns | The Hill
Given Facebook’s Privacy Backlash, Why Aren’t We Angrier With the Broadband Industry? | Motherboard
What your internet service provider knows about you | Marketplace
Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it. | Boston Globe
Silicon Valley played by a different set of rules. Facebook’s crisis could put an end to that | Los Angeles Times
Libraries and Privacy
Privacy in Libraries, a LITA webinar series | LITA
Privacy with Google Analytics | Library Journal
Library offers help protecting online privacy | Cornell Chronicle
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
Court filing claims Education Dept illegally got SSN data | AP News
Schools Are Using AI to Check Students’ Social Media for Warning Signs of Violence | Gizmodo
Student Privacy Laws Have Been Distorted (And That’s a Problem) | Education Week
Privacy Advocates Brace for Shakeup at U.S. Education Department | Education Week
Broadband Privacy
Facebook Working With Comcast To Scuttle California Broadband Privacy Protections | TechDirt
Law and Regulation
Europe’s New Privacy Law Will Change The Web, And More | Wired
Google Wants Publishers to Get Users’ Consent on Its Behalf to Comply With EU Privacy Law | Wall Street Journal
Police in Massachusetts Say Online Privacy Bill Would Prevent Vetting of New Recruits | GovTech
This Week in Data Breaches
Orbitz data breach exposed 880,000 payment cards | Endgadget