(Or, why do we accept a world without opt-out?) Earlier this week, I got an email update from CrashPlan notifying me about updates to…
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Announcement
Welcome to Even More Cynical
No, this is definitely not a post about all the New Years Resolutions I am (not) making. However, I have been thinking about ways…
Privacy
NISO Library Users’ Privacy Principles
As I mentioned in a blog post in July after our in-person meeting in San Francisco, I have been privileged to be on the…
Information Security
Trust & Transparency in Privacy
TL; DR: It is abundantly important to be transparent and honest about how data is collected, used and shared from the outset of your…
Privacy
The End of Safe Harbour?
Earlier today, the European Court of Justice announced that it was invalidating the US/EU Safe Harbour agreement that has allowed personal data back and…
Information Security
A more secure, alternate version of you
There is an interesting concept growing in popularity on the Internet: dishonesty. Now, I am sure you will want to say to me, “But Daniel,…
Privacy
Library Patron Privacy
Over the past four months, I have had the pleasure to have been involved in and on the steering committee for an effort to…
Technology
iPhone 6+: Three Months In
It has been just over 3 months since I got the massive, yet amazingly thin block of metal, silicon and glass called the iPhone…
Information Security
Identity and The World Around Us
With yet another announcement of personal data being compromised from a company, are we ready to start thinking about living in a world without…
Science
Send Your Name on Orion
On December 4, NASA will launch its first flight test (EFT-1) for the new Orion capsule from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The space-loving public…