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The White House recently released a report on big data. While it was highly anticipated by people who closely follow data privacy issues, chances are that it wasn't on the radar of most individuals. Read More

Face Facts: A Forum on Facial Recognition

Project Number P115406

Submitted January 31, 2012

I. Privacy Concerns Surrounding the Adoption of Facial Detection and Recognition Technologies

As the fallout from the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to make headlines, it is important to remember that our privacy problems don’t end Read More

A data breach is a security violation in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an unauthorized individual. It could be a result of

Sometimes. Currently, no federal law gives you the right to prevent data brokers from collecting, sharing or publishing your personal information. Read More

You can contact data brokers like MyLife directly to request that your information be removed, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.

The director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Beth Givens, went head to head in last Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune with Michael Robertson, a San Diego-based high-tech entrepreneur who founded MP3.com and Gizmo5 among other ventures. The topic was online privacy. Read More

Opening Presentation by Beth Givens
Santa Clara University, Symposium on Internet Privacy
Computer and High Technology Law Journal
February 11-12, 2000