Privacy of Personal Identity Data – It’s a Simple Equation

by Andy Land, Vice President of Marketing Last week I wrote about identity information as the product.  In this post, I am following up with two more interesting happenings. Google Changing Its Privacy Policy Facebook and the European Commission Facing … Continue reading

2011 Year in Review (Part 1)

Part 1: We were busy! Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium had a busy 12 months. Here we are at the end of the year, and we wanted to catch you up. This is Part I, a recap through the first half of 2011. PDEC people and Startup Circle companies are in bold. PDEC Events, Publications and […]

Should an Actress be Suing IMDB Because She Doesn’t Want Her Age Posted?

(This post is cross-posted at Napsterization.org/stories, my personal blog on disruptive technologies.) Brad McCarty of The Next Web thinks the IMDb: Age-publishing lawsuit is “a frivolous abuse” and should be dropped. Reading his piece, I can see that on first glance, it sounds silly. An actress anonymously sues the Amazon-owned IMDB folks because they won’t […]

Nothing to Hide?

I had not heard of Truth-Out until Matt pointed me at this article.
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
by: Daniel J. Solove, Yale University Press | Book Excerpt
I have often questioned the tangled semantics and interpreta…