by Itzel Martinez | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Someone Could Listen
AT&T, an American multinational telecommunications corporation, is being fined $25 million dollars because of customer data breaches where not only names and phone numbers were leaked, but also social security numbers. The breaches occurred when outsiders paid...
by Julia Bernd | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
In the last couple of days, some interesting pieces caught our attention that speak to why privacy is important (online or offline). These two works hit the extremes in presentation and style, but make similar points: A serious opinion piece in the New York Times...
by Itzel Martinez | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog, Project News
Come join us this Saturday, April 18, at the University of California, Berkeley, where the Teaching Privacy research team will be hosting an interactive lab from 10 a.m. – 12 noon in 380 Soda Hall. Come find out what the Internet knows about you, how it knows...
by Itzel Martinez | Mar 30, 2015 | Blog, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
The following article is the story of an elementary school teacher who used a screenshot of herself to teach her students about privacy on Snapchat. This elementary school teacher wanted to show her students that the pictures that are sent “privately”...
by Julia Bernd | Mar 23, 2015 | Blog, Project News
The January-March issue of IEEE MultiMedia includes a guest column by the Teaching Privacy team, “Teaching Privacy: Multimedia Making a Difference”, in the magazine’s Media Impact department. And it just so happens that IEEE is making the first issue...
by Itzel Martinez | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work
Everyone downloads applications from the app store, but do you know what information you are giving up when you download a new application? Often mobile applications appear to be harmless, but are they? One example of a “harmless” application is the...
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