Consumer Online Privacy

05/16/2012

Facebook

Facebook: $100 Billion IPO. Almost 1 Billion Users. You Do the Math.

By Chris Conley, ACLU of Northern California at 8:35am

The big news in the business world this week is Facebook’s ongoing Initial Public Offering, where the company is selling shares to the public based on an ... Read More

05/08/2012

Online Privacy

BREAKING NEWS: Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users

By Aden Fine, Senior Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 12:59pm

Twitter has filed a motion in state court in New York seeking to quash a court order requiring it to turn over information about one of its users and his ... Read More

05/07/2012

Consumer Online Privacy

Email, Companies and Social Norms

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 10:51am

I wanted to make note of an interesting anomaly in a new survey that looks at Americans’ attitudes toward the privacy issues implicated by the use of mobile ... Read More

04/30/2012

Data Mining

The Potential Chilling Effects of Big Data

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 11:46am

Last week I posted about “Big Data” and how it is being used to discover new facts about people, to sift and sort them based on subtle patterns, to flag ... Read More

04/23/2012

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Free Future!

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 10:57am

This week we launched Free Future, a new blog that will feature a range of forward-looking technology issues. Read More

04/10/2012

Do Not Track

Making Do Not Track a Reality

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 7:24pm

The ACLU has stated concern again and again about the new model of internet advertising which relies heavily on tracking users as they move from website to website ... Read More

04/09/2012

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (4/9/2012)

By Anna Salem, ACLU of Northern California at 11:10am

In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and ... Read More

04/02/2012

Online Privacy

A Primer for the Online Privacy Multistakeholder Process

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 5:12pm

What the heck is a multistakeholder process (MSP)? The word multistakeholder is so obscure that my computer's spell check doesn't even recognize it, yet it's come ... Read More

03/30/2012

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (3/30/2012)

By Anna Salem, ACLU of Northern California at 10:51am

In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and ... Read More

03/27/2012

Consumer Online Privacy

FTC Report: A Roadmap for Future Success?

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 2:21pm

The FTC's newly released privacy report is a roadmap to success on consumer privacy — now it's up to Congress to follow the directions Read More

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