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Tag Archives: Privacy
Judge Orenstein in the New York Times
Remember Judge James Orenstein? He’s the federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York who refused the FBI’s request to order Apple to help them break into an iPhone. I found his decision particularly interesting because the facts … Continue reading
The Data Gatherers Are Out Of Control
The Spanish Soccer League, La Liga, licenses the right to display its games. It’s very aggressive about enforcing that licensing especially in venues like bars where fans naturally gather to watch the games. The situation is much different here in … Continue reading
The Government Can’t Protect Your Data Either
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Equifax and First American Financial Corp breaches. I noted that the situation was out of hand and that even the curmudgeons at Irreal were ready to put aside their distaste for … Continue reading
How to Limit Google Tracking You
It turns out that there are some steps you can take to limit the type and amount of data that Google collects on you. This is especially relevant if you live in the Android ecosystem but even for those of … Continue reading
Privacy.io
From John Cook’s Data Privacy Twitter feed we have this recommendation: How to protect your privacyhttps://t.co/4Os4OH1p7D — Data Privacy (@data_tip) March 14, 2019 If you’re at all interested in privacy, you should take a look at the PrivacyTools.io site. It … Continue reading
An Application of Bayes’ Theorem to Differential Privacy
In a nice followup to yesterday’s post about differential privacy, John Cook, the proprietor of the Data Privacy Twitter feed, has a nice post that uses Bayes’ Theorem to implement a simple differential privacy scheme. The problem is to gather … Continue reading
Differential Privacy
One of the tough problems in ethical data gathering is how to collect statistics while respecting the privacy of those the data is being gathered from. It’s widely known that most forms of data anonymization are not robust and that … Continue reading
Reason Number Googol To Avoid Google
Most people think of Google as an advertising company—and that is how they make their money—but I think it’s more accurate to describe them as a surveillance company. The surveillance is in service of the advertising, of course, but if … Continue reading
Selling 911 Location Data
Speaking of John Cook’s Data Privacy twitter account, as I did yesterday, here’s an interesting item: Selling 911 location data is illegal but US carriers reportedly did it anywayhttps://t.co/cAtPd5n5Mj — Data Privacy (@data_tip) February 14, 2019 It turns out that … Continue reading
New Data Privacy Tip Twitter Account from John D Cook
I’ve long been a fan of John Cook’s TeX Tips and often learn something new from them. Cook has a number of such Twitter accounts covering various aspects of Mathematics and other technical areas. I was, therefore, happy to see … Continue reading