Half of Americans have decided not to use a product or service because of privacy concerns
At a time when many Americans believe their personal information is less secure and are concerned with how companies and […]
Articles on Privacy and Personal Data
Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps
How long would it take to read the Terms of Service Agreements of popular online services See the full infographic […]
A Commons for Privacy Consent
Since the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandate, marketers worldwide have reluctantly appended privacy consent mechanisms to their site […]
Shelter in Place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden
Shane chats with former NSA spy and whistleblower Edward Snowden on the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s […]
Privacy yes, but not at all costs
Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people […]
The Digital Afterlife
Our everything-digital era has made it easier to preserve every last scrap of information about our lives, but eventually, many […]
Empowering Personal Data For Exponential Economic Growth
It’s painful having to navigate the privacy consent forms for online services, and that’s before being able to find what […]
Customers and the data chain
A 2-part blog series for anyone interested in the protections that exist for customers who chose to access their financial […]
The Rise of Digitalism: Will the Coronavirus Trigger the End of Liberalism?
“The story of Digitalism explains the future as a struggle for data among companies and (certain) governments trying to collect […]
We must save privacy from privacy itself
“Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put […]
The economic exploitation of personal data in privacy and consumer laws
“The Italian Court goes beyond the assumption that personal data as the expression of personality rights, subject to specific and […]
Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus
In recent years both governments and corporations have been using ever more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and manipulate people. […]
The Best and Worst Browsers for Privacy, Ranked
From a privacy perspective Microsoft Edge and Yandex are qualitatively different from the other browsers studied. Both send persistent identifiers […]
Business Models and Trust
How business model evolution can and will help to overcome the trust challenge for corporations Traditional business models have largely […]
Why the new privacy laws demand data-centric security
Regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) require companies to […]