by Gerald Friedland | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Search Is Improving, You Can't Escape
A recent column in Scientific American explains how trading supposedly “anonymized” data about patients’ health history and prescription purchases has become a multibillion-dollar business: How Data Brokers Make Money Off Your Medical Records And an...
by Julia Bernd | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Project News
Come join us this Saturday, April 16, at the University of California, Berkeley, at the annual “Cal Day” campus-wide open house! The Teaching Privacy team will be hosting an interactive lab from 10 a.m. – 12 noon in 380 Soda Hall. Come find out what...
by Melody Valdez | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control
Recently, the “Most Used Words” Facebook quiz has been gaining popularity with over sixteen million users across the globe. However, a majority of these users are unaware that playing the quiz discloses personal data about themselves to a company called...
by Melody Valdez | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Someone Could Listen
Last month, the Obama administration decided that it won’t push tech companies to put encryption “backdoors” in their products. This means that the companies are not required to provide law enforcement and government agencies with easy access to...
by Melody Valdez | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, You're Leaving Footprints
Have you ever wondered how companies are able to show advertisements targeted specifically towards your wants and needs? Researchers from Columbia University developed a tool called Sunlight that aims to improve transparency between users’ information, such as...
by Melody Valdez | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Someone Could Listen
You may have already heard that keeping your online accounts safe from hackers require secure and unique passwords for each account. However, how can you think of several passwords containing random letters, numbers, and symbols that are easy to remember? Researchers...
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