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California Mobile App Privacy Initiative – Special Wednesday Context Post
Yesterday’s post probably made it clear that this blog has a negative view of the mobile app privacy initiative of the California Attorney General. The post tomorrow should put to rest any doubt about...
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California’s Mobile App Privacy Initiative – A Good Example of What’s Wrong...
To be effective, regulation has to be about acts and omissions – not disclosure. We don’t charge people for the crime of failing to disclosure their intention to steal. We charge them for stealing....
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Friday Fun Facts
Apparently not everyone is successfully using data analytics. I got an email from West Publishing entitled “Legal courses relevant to you.” Here is the list of courses they suggest for me: Trends in...
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Want a job? Start Tweeting and get more Facebook Friends.
If you’re concerned about your privacy, one of the best things you can do is limit the places where you disclose anything about yourself. Sadly, it’s becoming more difficult to do that. In particular,...
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A Little Muck-blogging about the Securities and Exchange Commission and...
This post is not about securities law. It’s about privacy and the law of unintended consequences. So the SEC released a report about public disclosures and social media. It’s here:...
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Comments about the SEC – Social Media Thing are Annoying
The two most annoying things about the SEC – Social Media discussion are (a) the people that don’t get it, and (b) the people that say other people don’t get it. This sometimes happens when two worlds...
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Big Data and Financial Markets – Just Because We Can Do It Doesn’t Mean We...
So it appears it’s possible to predict movement in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Serious technical stuff about this is here: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01684/full/srep01684.html...
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Versium Analytics – You Probably Don’t Know Them, They Might Know All about...
Versium is a data technology company that has a database they call ATLAS. In that database are, in their words, “…billions of records with billions of real life attributes on consumers and...
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Speaking of Data Sellers – The FTC is Looking at Them
Given yesterday’s post, there is one bit of news we should not ignore. This week the Federal Trade Commission announced it has been conducting an investigation of data brokers and their compliance (or...
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Gild Ranks Techies and Tells Employers Which Job Candidates Are Best
In a previous post, we discussed the possibility (apparently more than just a possibility) that employers would consider your score with a profiling “service” as part of the hiring process. In that...
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California Attorney General Goofs Again
We’re back to the problems the California Attorney General is having with constructively addressing privacy issues with mobile apps. As you know, Attorney General took two big actions with respect to...
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Non-Infringement Warranty Disclaimers – Please Relax, You’re Covered Elsewhere
This will seem basic to some, but I keep running into the issue so it’s not as widely understood as it might be. Also, this might be new information to readers unfamiliar with U.S. law. In the United...
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Things We Can Learn about Big Data and the Law from the 3D Gun Printing Story
This is the first of a three-part series. Today we consider what the 3D gun printing story can teach us about the Law of Unintended Consequences. The law of unintended consequences is my favorite...
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The 3D Gun Printing Example – Big Data Should Start Thinking about Export...
It appears that thumbing his nose at the idea of gun control was what Cody Wilson had in mind when he arranged to publish the plans for using a 3D printer to manufacture his plastic gun. It also...
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The 3D Gun Printing Example – Maybe There are Some People You Don’t Want on...
This is not a hit job on Cody Wilson, tempting though it might be to write one. Here’s the thing – if I shared his world view, however you might define it, I wouldn’t want him on my side. For a number...
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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,...
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Big Data Malpractice
Garbage in, garbage out. Remember that? Some related observations from the article we discussed in our last post: The word “data” connotes fixed numbers inside hard grids of information, and as a...
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That NSA Thing
No doubt there has been enough written about this, and one more thing will be superfluous. A blog named Big Data and the Law can’t avoid the subject though. But before we get into the “and the Law”...
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That NSA Thing – Think about the Data for a Minute, Think about It Differently
I started doing some photography as a hobby this year. One thing I learned in the process is that not seeing the forest for the trees isn’t always a problem. Sometimes the trees deserve some...
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The Future of Violating Your Privacy
Let’s discuss the personal information of the future – medical information. Not just any information – information about your DNA. (Please remember we don’t say personally identifiable information...
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