Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Be prepared for the big genome leak

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/be-prepared-for-the-big-genome-leak-1.13173

It is only a matter of time until idealism sees the release of confidential genetic data on study participants, says Steven E. Brenner.

My compilation of useful stories on PRISM, which really hurts privacy credibility of US tech companies

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/us/booz-allen-grew-rich-on-government-contracts.html Leaker’s Employer Is Paid to Maintain Government Secrets

NSA Leaker’s Fate Could Lie With Beijing
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/06/10/contractors-fate-could-lie-with-beijing/

Data-Driven Tech Industry Is Shaken by Online Privacy Fears – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/technology/data-driven-tech-industry-is-shaken-by-online-privacy-fears.html

Contractor Edward Snowden Admits to Leaks – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495604578535653583992418.html

Peeping President Obama – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-peeping-president-obama.html

Legal basis for PRISM
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/prisms-legal-basis-how-we-got-here-and-what-we-can-do-to-get-back/276667/

U.S. Official Releases Details on Prism Program – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324299104578533802289432458.html

Original Guardian Story
NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others • Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook
• Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

Isp-fellows Legal basis for PRISM

Monday, June 10th, 2013

An attempt at addressing the government’s and companies’ claims that the NSA does not have “unfettered access” to user content.
QT: “Just because you have a court order does not mean that court order is constitutional:”
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/prisms-legal-basis-how-we-got-here-and-what-we-can-do-to-get-back/276667/

Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping – NYTimes.com

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

MT @nytimes: Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping http://bit.ly/16u7fVX If Google/AOL/Yahoo likewise, would tell reporters our email access?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/media/bloomberg-admits-terminal-snooping.html

Privacy protections: The genome hacker : Nature News & Comment

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Magdalena Skipper @Magda_Skipper5m
Out last Thursday, a News Feature – Privacy protections: The genome hacker @NatureNews @erlichya
http://www.nature.com/news/privacy-protections-the-genome-hacker-1.12940

Harvard Professor Re-Identifies Anonymous Volunteers In DNA Study – Forbes

Monday, May 6th, 2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/04/25/harvard-professor-re-identifies-anonymous-volunteers-in-dna-study

IAAP Privacy certification

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

https://www.privacyassociation.org/certification

Henrietta Lacks’s genome sequence has been publicly available for years « Genomes Unzipped

Sunday, April 21st, 2013

http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2013/03/henrietta-lackss-genome-sequence-has-been-publicly-available-for-years.php

Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put Him in Prison | Raises Qs of accountability for tech we make

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison | Threat Level | Wired.comhttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/alfred-anaya

Identifiability Think Tank Report Published in Genetics in Medicine

Friday, April 12th, 2013

an article describing the Think Tank was just published online in Genetics in Medicine:
http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/gim.2013.40