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 | 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 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...
by Itzel Martinez | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work
Have we reached the era where we are no longer in charge of our privacy? One of the most popular telecommunications companies, AT&T, recently released a “supercookie”, an undeleteable cookie that tracks the web-browsing activity of its subscribers....
by Itzel Martinez | Feb 16, 2015 | Blog, Privacy Requires Work
The Federal Communications Commission has been working on new rules to regulate the Internet. For the last year, F.C.C. Chairman Tom Wheeler’s goal has been to reach net neutrality, meaning an open Internet. This open Internet order would give the Federal...
by Itzel Martinez | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
Facebook’s new privacy policy was implemented on January 30, 2015. Concerns have been raised in Europe by Johannes Caspar, the privacy regulator in Hamburg, Germany, that this new Facebook privacy policy might breach the German Data Protection Law....
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