PRG News Roundup: October 14th
ACLU calls for greater oversight of border patrol policies Newly released complaints from drivers stopped at the border describe agents engaging in improper gunplay, racial profiling, excessive roughness, and verbal…
PRG News Roundup: October 7th
China Introduces New “Social Credit Score” with the Help of China’s Largest Social Media Companies Link: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions/ The proposed credit score will take into account not only your ability to…
PRG News Roundup: September 30th
Due to a Photograph in the Washington Post, Amateur Lock Pickers have Posted Instructions for Printing the TSA’s Master Key (which universally opens locked luggage) to 3-D Printing Sites: Lockpickers…
PRG News Roundup: September 23rd
Facebook files a patent for identifying cameras through the vagaries of their hardware profiles. The ECJ Advocat General rules that the US/EU data "safe harbor" agreement fail to meet European data protection standards.
Facebook’s New Patent Application Identifies Camera Signatures Using Metadata, Faulty Pixels
Earlier this year, Facebook filed a patent application claiming a method for identifying camera signatures based on features extracted from uploaded images, including faulty pixel positions in the camera and…
PRG News Roundup: September 16th
California appeals court rules in favor of Facebook over access to social media posts protected under federal law: "Appeals Court Sides with Facebook in Fight over Postings" New Hampshire public…
Digital Medicine One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
The FDA has just determined that the New Drug Application combining schizophrenia medication Abilify with a chip / ingestible sensor, is sufficiently complete to allow for a substantive review. The…
PRG News Roundup: September 9th
Keystroke biometric technologies may play role in new password systems and could be used to identify users: “Future Passwords Will Use Typing Style and Other ‘Cognitive Fingerprints’” Colleges are using big data in…
The Hack of Ashley Madison: Moral and Ethical Privacy Questions
The summer news provided the Privacy Research Group with quite a bit of discussion. The one topic that provoked the liveliest debate was the recent hack and public release of…
PRG News Roundup: September 2nd
Hackers release account and credit card information from 37 million users of Ashley Madison, a dating website for would-be adulterers. “The Ashley Madison Data Dump, Explained” The Third Circuit affirms…