Category: Privacy

Robinhood App Hit by Data Breach Exposing Users’ Emails, Names

Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Hacker, Personal Information, Robinhood, Social Engineering

Author: AFP; Publisher: The Economic Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article details how on November 3, 2021, a hacker snatched approximately 5 million email addresses and 2 million users’ names with a technique called…
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Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection

Beneficence, Coercion, Current Problems, Data Abuse, Data Collection, Data-Driven Research, Henrietta Lacks, Informed Consent, Privacy, Statistics, Tuskegee Experiment, Voluntariness

Author: Adriene Hill; Publisher: Crash Course; Publication Year: 2019. The following video provides important background on the context and consequences of data-driven research relative to the foundational elements of statistics. It also provides links to…
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FTC Sues Data Broker for Letting People Track Health Clinic Visitors

Abortion, Federal Trade Commission, Justice, Kochava, Law, Personal Health, Personal Safety, Roe v. Wade, Selling Data

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…
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Big Data: Destroyer of Informed Consent

Big Data, Data Collection, Data Science Studies, Data Scientists, Informed Consent, Machine Learning Algorithms, Regulation, Virtual

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…
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How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Can Accelerate Your Data Strategy

Compliance, Consumer Trust, Customer-Centric, Data Privacy, Flexibility, PETs, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Privacy-First, Regulations, Security, Speed, Strength, Support, Utility

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…
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Category: Privacy

Robinhood App Hit by Data Breach Exposing Users’ Emails, Names

Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection

FTC Sues Data Broker for Letting People Track Health Clinic Visitors

Big Data: Destroyer of Informed Consent

How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Can Accelerate Your Data Strategy