March 27 Panel 06
Gabriel Gutiérrez Documents Say NSA Pretends to be Facebook in Surveillance , from the Wall Street Journal’s Big Data Blog, written by Reed Albergotti and Danny Yadron The article “reveals"…
13 March Panel 7
Jeffrey Ritholtz http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-administration-faces-foia-fire-over-ambassador-picks/article/2545253 http://washingtonexaminer.com/examiner-editorial-foia-reform-a-step-forward-for-government-transparency/article/2544763 The Obama administration has come under fire in recent weeks for its failure to publicize the “Certificates of Demonstrated Competence” that the State Department fills out…
February 27 Panel 08
Fanny Pelpel http://threatpost.com/justice-dept-eases-gag-order-on-fisa-national-security-letter-reporting/103903 This article deals with National Security Letters (NSL) and the gag order that is applied with regards to them in particular. This issue has generated a lot…
February 20 PANEL 09
Yael Tzipori http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/06/no-fourth-amendment-right-in-metadata-embedded-in-posted-photo-court-holds/ On January 30, 2014, a judge of the Southern District of Texas determined that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the metadata embedded in a…
February 13 PANEL 10
Angela Lelo http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-sotomayor-undermined-obamas-nsa This article’s author discusses the influence that Sotomayor’s concurring opinion in U.S. v. Jones has already had on the White House, federal judges, and legal scholars. To…
Agricultural Privacy?
Here's the story I mentioned at PRG today about farmers giving their farm data to big agricultural companies for analytic purposes. I think the article calls to mind the lack…
IAPP Westin Research Fellowships
Of possible interest from Omer Tene: Established in 2013, the IAPP Westin Research Center was created to encourage and enable research and scholarship in the field of privacy. Each year,…
Internet architects propose encrypting all the world’s Web traffic
See details here.
Sloan Cybersecurity Lecture at NYU-Poly
As part of the FTC's "Reclaim Your Name" initiative, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill delivered the Sloan Cybersecurity Lecture at NYU-Poly. Her talk focused on the rise of big data as…
Extra-PRG Meeting on the Technical Implications of the NSA and GCHQ Revelations
On the 27th of September, we organized an extra Privacy Research Group (PRG) meeting on the technical implications of the NSA and GCHQ surveillance programs as revealed by Edward Snowden…