Resources that discuss issues related to data collection, utilization and distribution as pertaining to maintaining a person’s private information.
Author: Adi Robertson; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against a company called Kochava that was selling data, which in some cases included both personal details and location data that put individuals at risk. This was particularly sensitive in light of the recent overturning of…
Author: A. Michael Froomkin; Publisher: Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Yale Journal of Law & Technology; Publication Year: 2019. The following article focuses on how a regulation was changed in 2019 to revise what it means for the requirement of informed consent. Now that companies collect data virtually everywhere and data scientists are trying to find correlations in virtually anything i.e. Machine Learning algorithms clustering people in an uneasily…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and how “vendors should be able to explain the technologies they use, and the benefits and trade-offs of each, in helping you maintain compliance with data privacy regulations while building consumer trust.” The article lists 6 key features to consider…