Neil Richards offers four principles for surveillance law: surveillance is not just for governments, secret surveillance and total surveillance are illegitimate, and surveillance is harmful. I add that surveillance is becoming something everyone and everything does, and that privacy is becoming about personal data as property.
About Phil Wolff
Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.
There’s a new pain
3 April 2013 by
Public expectations of privacy are expanding to include new powers and wider scope faster than governments, companies, and laws can keep up.
Sequester hits NIST, spares active NSTIC pilots
31 March 2013 by
A few weeks ago, John Fontana at Identity Matters reported NIST’s sequestration budget cuts will affect the NSTIC program management office but spare awarded NSTIC pilots. The Commerce Department official said, “The reductions required by sequestration will adversely affect all NIST cybersecurity related efforts through cutbacks on travel, contracts, grants, and other operational expenses. NIST currently does not anticipate eliminating […]
Q. What will be the most important issues in data ownership over the next ten years?
22 March 2013 by
Quora asked What will be the most important issues in data ownership over the next ten years? My answer… You’re asking for predictions, so: By 2022 news services will have reported… A million people joined a class action lawsuit against Facebook demanding more transparency over personal data re-sharing after a very public crisis. Courts ruled whether US […]