#PrivChat 2013
Back to PrivChatMay 21, 2013
- Q1: What do DOJ investigations on press mean for privacy and free speech? (background available at Washington Post: Justice Department’s scrutiny of Fox News reporter James Rosen in leak case draws fire and MSNBC: DOJ names Fox News reporter "co-conspirator" in leak case)
- Q2: Should Chinese Hackers Know More about US Surveillance Operations than US Citizens? (background available at Washington Post: Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say)
- Q3: What Questions Would you Like to Ask Google about Glass? (background available at Guardian: Is Google Glass an affront to privacy? Rest easy: Congress has got your back)
- Q4: What do Commercial Acquisitions Mean for Consumer Privacy? (background available at Think Progress: Will Yahoo Buying Tumblr Mean Less Privacy for Users? and EPIC: Privacy? Proposed Google/DoubleClick Merger)
May 14, 2013
- Q1: The Department of Justice Seized Records of AP Journalists: Reactions? (background available at AP: Gov’t Secretly Obtained AP Phone Records In Probe and New York Times: Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.)
- Q2: Does the Law Need to be Updated to Protect Journalists? (background available at EPIC: Privacy Protection Act of 1980 and Wired: Obama Administration Secretly Obtains Phone Records of AP Journalists)
- Q3: Do Private Companies Have Adequate Security Practices? (background available at Quartz: Bloomberg accidentally posted private terminal messages online)
- Q4: Will the IRS targeting scandal have long-term implications for Washington? (background available at Washington Post: IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups)
May 7, 2013
Featured Guests: Khaliah Barnes: Administrative Law Counsel, EPIC (biography) and Edward Hasbrouck, journalist, consumer advocate, travel expert, and consultant (biography).
- Q1: Why do you oppose TSA Nude Body Scanners? (background available at Washington Post: Speak Out Now on Full-Body Scanners and EPIC: Comment on the TSA Nude Body Scanner Proposal)
- Q2: Is TSA "risk-based" profiling effective, and importantly, objective? (background available at TSA: TSA Pre-Check Expands Expedited Screening Benefits for International Travel and TSA: Secure Flight Program)
- Q3: Does political speech interfere with TSA screening? (background available at Papers, Please!: Hearing May 14 in Portland for "Naked American Hero" John Brennan)
- Q4: What role should government whistleblowers play in a Nude Body Scanner world? (background available at Government Executive: Ruling in TSA Air Marshal Case Hailed by Whistleblower Advocates)
April 30, 2013
- Q1: CISPA is dead, ECPA is headed to the Senate floor - What is next for CALEA? (background available at Washington Post: Panel seeks to fine tech companies for noncompliance with wiretap orders)
- Q2: Is Big Data Making us More Efficient? (background available at New York Times: How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers)
- Q3: Can Do Not Track Save Us? (background available at New York Times: When Your Data Wanders to Places You’ve Never Been)
- Q4: What Lessons in Privacy Have We Learned from the Boston Bombings? (background available at Independent: Police probe female DNA found on fragments of Boston bomb and Reason: 3 Reasons the Boston Bombing Case Should Not Change Our Attitudes About Privacy)
April 23, 2013
April 16, 2013
- Q1: What Can We Learn from Documents Showing IRS Justification for Reading Emails? (background available at The Register: ACLU documents shows free access to emails for IRS tax police)
- Q2: What Tools do You Use to Preserve Your Privacy? (background available at New Zealand Herald: Fleeced over Facebook message and Online Media Daily: New App Lets Mobile Users Opt Out Of Behavioral Targeting)
- Q3: Drones and Privacy...So, "How Do You Feel About it?" (background available at Ars Technica: Google head worried about privacy risk posed by civilian drones)
- Q4: What Do You Want to Tell Your Lawmakers About Cybersecurity? (background available at ACLU: Cybersecurity, Free Press Action Fund: Tell Congress: Vote "NO" on CISPA!, and CDT: CISPA Moves To the House Floor, Still Deeply Flawed)
April 9, 2013
- Q1: How Much Do You Care About Online Privacy? (background available at LifeHacker: How Much Do You Care About Your Online Privacy?)
- Q2: Where Do We Start on Privacy Education for the New Generation? (background available at Forbes: Another Day, Another Group of Teen Girls Blackmailed with Nude Photos)
- Q3: Can You Trust Any Company with Your Privacy? (background available at Venture Beat: Google Defies FBI, Asks Federal Judge to Challenge 'National Security Letters' and Gigaom: Why Facebook Bothers Me: It Destroys Any Notion of Privacy)
- Q4: Can CISPA be Saved? (background available at WebProNews: CISPA Is Looking Better, But Privacy Proponents Still Aren't Satisfied)
March 26, 2013
- Q1: Does moving to first-party cookies break the online advertising industry? (background available at Ad Exchanger: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Third-Party Cookies)
- Q2: What are the Practical Consequences When You Can be Identified by Four Data Points? (background available at BBC: Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk')
- Q3: How do Consumer Expectations Differ from Reality? (background available at Ad Age: The Purchase-to-Ad Data Trail: From Your Wallet to the World)
- Q4: Reactions to Florida v. Jardines: Does Today's Opinion Give Insight on Future Privacy Cases? (background available at EPIC: Florida v. Jardines and Supreme Court: Florida v. Jardines Opinion (pdf))
March 19, 2013
Featured Guests: Khaliah Barnes: Administrative Law Counsel, EPIC (biography) and Sheila Kaplan, independent student privacy researcher (biography)- Q1: A new proposal by the Social Security Administration will safeguard SSNs for younger school-aged children. What proposals should the Education Department adopt to safeguard students? (background available at EPIC: Social Security Administration Considers Stronger Privacy Safeguards for SSNs of Children)
- Q2: Are state-level penalties the way to go for FERPA violations? (background available at Student Press Law Center: Arizona legislator proposes state-level penalties for violating FERPA)
- Q3: As the K-12 student database market increases, what should be done for student privacy oversight, accountability, and transparency? (background available at Reuters: K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents)
- Q4: Can FERPA keep up the pace as we move into the future with MOOCs? (background available at New York Times: Colleges Assess Cost of Free Online-Only Courses)
March 12, 2013
Featured Guest: Margot Kaminski: Executive Director, Information Society Project at Yale Law School (biography)- Q1: Location tracking and the Fourth Amendment (background available at SCOTUS Blog: United States v. Jones)
- Q2: A Few Dysfunctions of the Wiretap Act (background available at Electronic Frontier Foundation: Pen Registers and Trap and Trace Devices)
- Q3: Stingrays (background available at Wall Street Journal: 'Stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash)
- Q4: Remote Biometric Identification (background available at SSRN: Technological Leap, Statutory Gap, and Constitutional Abyss: Remote Biometric Identification Comes of Age (Abstract))
March 5, 2013
- Q1: Mozilla To Start Blocking Cookies by Default - Should Other Browsers Do The Same? (background available at Mozilla Privacy Blog: Firefox Getting Smarter About Third-party Cookies, Michael Harper: New Firefox Choosier About Who Gets Cookies, and Justin Brookman: Mozilla Says Enough Is Enough)
- Q2: How Will Online Exam-Proctoring Software Affect Student Privacy? (background available at New York Times: Keeping an Eye on Online Test-Takers)
- Q3: Senators Rockefeller and Blumenthal Reintroduced the Do-Not-Track Bill - Will They Have More Success This Time? (background available at U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Rockefeller Introduces Do-Not-Track Bill to Protect Consumers Online and The Verge: Do Not Track bill reintroduced: 'They have dragged their feet long enough,' says senator)
- Q4: What Should Be Edith Ramirez's Privacy Goals As New FTC Chair? (background available at Media Post: New FTC Head Ramirez Seen As Privacy Supporter and FTC: Edith Ramirez to Lead the Federal Trade Commission)
February 26, 2013
- Q1: Should you leave facebook? (background available at CNN: Why I'm quitting Facebook and Julie Angwin: Why I'm unfriending you on Facebook)
- Q2: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Meets March 5th - Can You Find Your Invitation? (background available at Irregular Times: Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Meets March 5. Can You Find Your Invitation?)
- Q3: Do We Still Need Cybersecurity Legislation? (background available at ACLU: President Obama Shows No CISPA-like Invasion of Privacy Needed to Defend Critical Infrastructure)
- Q4: Google Glass is Coming: What Will It Mean? (background available at Forbes: Confirmed: Google Glass Will Tether With Android And iPhone For 3G Or 4G Data and Google: Google Glass)
February 19, 2013
- Q1: What kinds of concrete privacy protections would you like to see developed as a result of Obama's order on cybersecurity? (background available at New York Times: Obama Order Gives Firms Cyberthreat Information and Wall Street Journal: Obama Presses Cybersecurity Effort (paywall))
- Q2: How reliable are dog sniffs and other investigative techniques? (background available at Supreme Court of the United States: Florida v. Harris (opinion) (pdf) and The Atlantic: Are Dogs 'Scientific Devices'?)
- Q3: What Should the FAA's Drone Privacy Policy Look Like? (background available at EPIC: EPIC Petitions FAA on Drone Privacy, Agency Responds and FAA: Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site Selection (UASTSS) (Announcement))
- Q4: How should Tesla use and disclose the Electronic Driving Records (EDRs) it obtained during a NYTimes' controversial review of its car? (background available at New York Times: Stalled Out on Tesla's Electric Highway, Tesla Motors: A Most Peculiar Test Drive, and New York Times: Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test)
February 5, 2013
Feedback Edition: Provide your thoughts on and reactions to the following announcements:- Q1: Privacy Groups' Letter to the Obama Administration on EU-US Privacy (background available at Letter From Prominent US Consumer and Civil Liberties Organizations to US Government Leaders Regarding Efforts to Update and Strengthen Privacy Law in Europe and the United States and New York Times: Data Protection Laws, an Ocean Apart)
- Q2: Aaron's Law (background available at Discussion Draft: Aaron's Law and Reddit: I'm Rep Zoe Lofgren, Here is a Modified Draft Version of Aaron's Law Reflecting the Internet’s Input)
- Q3: FTC Mobile Privacy Policy Guidelines (background available at FTC: FTC Staff Report Recommends Ways to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosures and ZDNet: FTC issues mobile privacy policy guidelines)
- Q4: Facebook Opts in to AdChoices (background available at AdAge: Facebook to Make Targeted Ads More Transparent For Users
January 29, 2013
- Q1: In the wake of Data Privacy Day, How Do You Feel Social Networks Manage Your Data? (background available at TPM: Google, Facebook, and Twitter Celebrate Data Privacy Day, Tech Crunch: Facebook Launches "Ask Our Chief Privacy Officer" To Replace Policy Voting With Understanding, and Slate: Skype Won't Say Whether it Can Eavesdrop on Conversations. See also Twitter: Transparency Report and Facebook: Ask Our Chief Privacy Officer.)
- Q2: What About Physical Retailers? (background available at IT World: If You Shop Til You Drop, Will They Track When You Come Back?, Loyalty Blog: Reinventing the Customer Experience: Disney Builds Loyalty with RFID, and Congressman Ed Markey: Kid-Tracking Bracelet Raises Privacy Questions)
- Q3: What Will Increased Use of Biometric Data Mean for the Future? (background available at Wired: 11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will Use to Track You and UCIrvine: UCI App Safely Stores DNA on Smartphones)
- Q4: Why Does a 1980's Law Govern Law Enforcement Access to Email? (background available at Washington Post: Curtail the government's power to snoop
January 22, 2013
Featured Guest: AppRights, a project by Congressman Hank Johnson's Project (AppRights Bill Summary (pdf) and Section by Section (pdf))- Q1: The APPS Act only applies to developers who collect personal and de-identified data. Is this a balanced approach to mobile privacy, or should the bill apply more broadly to third-party data collection? (background available at CDT: Shielding the Messengers: Protecting Platforms for Expression and Innovation (pdf))
- Q2: Is de-identified data a useful definition, or is all data personal? (background available at Ars Technica: "Anonymized" data really isn't, and here's why not)
- Q3: The APPS Act also creates a safe harbor for developers that comply with the NTIA's industry code (forthcoming). Does this approach provide too much leeway? (background available at EPIC: NTIA Privacy Multistakeholder Process)
- Q4: The bill would require developers to provide a data-retention policy and create a mechanism for users to signal their intent to opt-out. Is it possible to delete third-party data, or should this provision continue to look to first-party data collection? (background available at Media Post: Did iOS 6 Save Mobile Advertising)
January 15, 2013
- Q1: Does a First Amendment exercise impact a Fourth Amendment (i.e. Privacy) interest regarding a Second Amendment debate? (background available at New York Times: N.Y. newspaper posts gun permit map, starts nasty online battle)
- Q2: Will mobile app developers implement California privacy recommendations? (background available at New York Times Bits: California Suggests Mobile App Privacy Guidelines and California Attorney General: Privacy on the Go)
- Q3: Facebook is proposing to charge $1 (or $100) to allow strangers to send messages to your Facebook Inbox. Does this violate users' rights? (background available at Mashable: Facebook Charging $100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg and The Atlantic: Facebook's Latest Monetization Experiment: Email Spam)
- Q4: Should legislators limit police use of surveillance drones? (background available at USA Today: Citing privacy, critics target drones buzzing over USA and Orlando Sentinel: Sheriff's Office wants to fly drones over Orange County skies)
January 8, 2013
Featured Guest: Justin Brookman, Director, CDT Project on Consumer Privacy (biography)- Q1: What's going to happen in Congress on privacy in 2013? Any hope for better privacy protections? (background available at New York Times: Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?)
- Q2: In the meantime, the FTC has been more aggressive in interpreting existing privacy law. How far does the FTC's authority extend today? (background available at CDT: FTC "Browser Sniffing" Case Could Mandate Disclosure of Unexpected Privacy Practices)
- Q3: On the other hand, the Supreme Court hinted in IMS Health v. Sorrell, that (some) privacy law could be unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Is privacy law even legal in 'Murica? (background available at CDT: CDT Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health)
- Q4: Will the new COPPA rule better protect kids' privacy? (background available at CDT: COPPA Rule Brings Regs Up to Date...but Who Must Comply?)
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