Is sharing your data worth what you’re getting out of it? That may be the wrong question to ask when you are thinking about whether to share.
Articles on Privacy policies
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To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
Following the app’s sale, the company’s updated privacy policy and terms of service set off alarm bells. The reaction shows Big Tech has lost the public’s trust.
Internet of Things devices are collecting an increasing amount of information, creating a web of data harvesting that ensnares people all around them.
AI tools that provide information to you also gather lots of information from you and may provide it to third parties.
Research shows using images in privacy policies makes them shorter and more understandable.
The terms of the Australian Privacy Principle 3.6 are quite clear. So why is there not a single published case of this law being enforced?
There’s little transparency surrounding how insurance firms collect, analyse and use our personal data when they establish insurance costs.
You have a finely honed sense of privacy in the physical world. But the sights and sounds you encounter online don’t help you detect risks and can even lull you into a false sense of security.
A health law expert explains what the regulation does and doesn’t protect.
Many sites offer the ability to ‘opt out’ of targeted advertisements, but doing so isn’t easy. Simplifying and standardizing opt-outs would help improve privacy on the web.
Consumers want better protection for their data, and businesses want clear national laws. Yet there is virtually no consensus about what a broad privacy law should entail.
Most tech companies make it difficult for users to say no to aggressive surveillance practices. But it is helpful to know about the default settings on your smartphone and how to change them.
Experts describe their research into how smartphones collect and share private personal information with tracking companies and advertisers.
Websites are trying to get around GDPR rules on giving you control over your data.
An online medical appointment booking organisation was sharing personal information about the users of their platform with a plaintiff law firm.
Privacy rules enacted in Europe are affecting companies – and their customers and users – all around the world.
We need to stop blaming consumers for not reading online privacy policies and fix the system.
US privacy laws focus on informing consumers what’s happening with their data; other countries specifically restrict data collection and analysis.
What scholars know, are learning and are predicting about the privacy of electronic data, online activity, smartphone use and electronic records.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Information; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
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Director of Consumer Privacy, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University
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Sessional Academic, Solicitor, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW
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Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, Indiana University
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Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Senior Research Officer, University of Essex
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Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
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Professor of Law, Public Health Sciences, and Public Policy, University of Virginia
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Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder