The hippy ethos that birthed early management of the internet is beginning to look quaint. Even as a military project, the core internet concept was a decentralized network of unlimited nodes that could reroute itself around danger and destruction. No one could control it because no one could […]
Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute found up to 1,325 Android applications (apps) gathering data from devices despite being explicitly denied permission. The study looked at more than 88,000 apps from the Google Play store and tracked data transfers post denial of permission. The 1,325 apps used […]
In a statement that is sure to affect any acquisition involving data assets subject to GDPR, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights, appears to have greatly increased an acquirer’s risk of suffering successor liability. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham just […]
The EU’s endless regulation imposed on data usage has spooled over into academia, providing another lesson in kneecapping your own society by overregulating it. And they wonder why none of the big internet companies arose from the EU (or ever will). This time, the European data regulators seems […]
After decades of free reign to gather and use personal data, Earth’s second largest internet using population may soon be imposing data privacy rules. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Telecom and IT minister, recently indicated that the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (PDPB), will be “quickly” taken to Parliament […]
Three seemingly unrelated topics coalesced in my head on this Independence Day Eve Day. First, I am reading proofs of my colleague and fellow HDD blogger Ted Claypoole’s excellent forthcoming new book “The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines”, which discusses the ways AI will (and won’t […]
It violates The Fair Housing Act to advertise in ways that deny particular segments of the housing market information about housing opportunities. It also violates New York law. But what happens when you use an advertising medium that discriminates on its own? We may just find out. New […]
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin We don’t know what we are missing. At this point, when some privacy expert or consumer do-gooder bemoans the fact that US consumers give away their private information for free to behemoth enterprises, we all just shrug […]
In 2018, the California legislature hurried a new privacy statute through the legislature at breakneck speed. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was drafted and became law with extraordinary speed, as legislators wanted to preempt a data privacy ballot initiative. In the past year, we’ve seen about a […]
These are the days of miracle and wonder This is the long distance call The way the camera follows us in slo-mo The way we look to us all The way we look to a distant constellation That’s dying in a corner of the sky These are the […]
