Category Archives: Data Security

Current Privacy Regulation Might Not Protect Your Personal Information

A June 1 article in The New York Times highlights some of the issues we are concerned with here at Big Data and the Law.  The article is about what Kate Crawford, a researcher at Microsoft Research, calls the “Six … Continue reading

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Two Examples of Cultural Impediments to Data Privacy and Security

Example 1 Last week an article in the Huffington Post described how 420,000 computers were hacked in the process of creating a GIF-based map of the internet.  There seems to be some debate about whether what occurred was really hacking.  … Continue reading

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