A recent technology post by Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic, suggests that the value of an individual’s data is somewhere between a nickel – 5 lowly cents – and a whopping $1,200.00. All of which makes for an interesting read, but what does it really mean? The first clue is in understanding how [...]
Read more →While working on the Facebook Privacy Informer App, we had to tackle the issue of “Scope of Distribution” of your personal information. Actually, this should be more properly named as “Scope of (Intended) Distribution”. Facebook privacy controls allow you to set the distribution of various aspects of your Facebook profile. In general, the controls allow [...]
Read more →We were hard at work on a development death march for the weeks leading into the Internet Identity Workshop #13 (conference notes to be posted soon on the IIW website), but we succeeded and Dwight showed the Facebook Privacy Informer App at the conference. The goal of the Privacy Informer App is to analyze the [...]
Read more →“Personal data is the new oil of the internet and the new currency of the digital world.” Meglena Kuneva (European Consumer Commissioner) Roundtable on Online Data Collection, Targeting and Profiling, Brussels, 31 March 2009 Personal Privacy, as it relates to internet commerce and social sites, has become a gating factor to increasing internet participation. Responding to [...]
Read more →The alarm goes off at 5:30am. While you’re at the coffee maker, you check the day’s weather and headlines on your smartphone. The Fed’s report is due at 10:00am, the local team split a double-header the night before, and it looks like it’s going to be another scorcher – its already 83oF and climbing. In [...]
Read more →During a recent stint at a startup creating a data marketplace based on a commodities exchange model, I created a method for measuring the somewhat abstract concept of “Privacy.” The measurement and analysis of privacy factors was surfaced in a Privacy Score, providing feedback on an entire data portfolio, and as a graphic measurement of [...]
Read more →Like others involved in the emerging privacy marketplace, I think a lot about what “Privacy” means. There are many ways to approach this question, and this post is just one of the ways that I have been thinking about answering it. When people talk about online privacy, what do they mean? Most “Privacy” concerns seem [...]
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