Online and IT privacy is a ripe issue for President Obama's or McCain's administration. It often takes a confluence of concerns and momentum to elevate an issue to the national forefront, and with privacy we have concerns related to targeted ads, ID theft, government snooping, electronic health records, and to [...]
It's been called a "virtual privacy time bomb" by a prominent Congressman, something that an FTC commissioner believes should "really trouble all of us" and to which one policy group believes we should have a legal right to examine, correct, and/or delete. What is it? Answer: Online behavioral marketing data. [...]
The Digital Rights Management and Interoperability panel at TPS yesterday provided a (relatively) fresh perspective on the extremely tired topics of DRM and fair use. I've seen a lot of these panels (there has been at least one every day for the past 5 years), but despite the predictable disagreements, [...]