Washingtonian Magazine named 100 “Tech Titans” of the DC metro area, including two people I know well! Congratulations to Leslie Harris, the CEO and President of the Center for Democracy & Technology, and my former boss at Leslie Harris & Associates. Congratulations also to Alan Davidson, Director of US Public Policy at Google, and...
The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog posts an abject horror story: Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site’s homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of...
Earlier this year, Justice Scalia told the Institute of American and Talmudic Law’s midwinter conference that, “Discussions of privacy rights in the digital era should distinguish between such confidential data as medical records and information that might be personal but is easy to find out.” He further noted, “Every single datum about my life...
When you think of the advertising industry, do you think “staunch defender of consumer privacy?” I didn’t think so. But at least some leading thinkers in the ad industry ARE defending consumer privacy, and advocating that their colleagues should do the same. Here’s what Greg Stuart, former President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising...
If you’ve been to see a doctor at any time during the last few years, you’ve no doubt been required to sign new forms related to your privacy. Often they’re long, complicated, and in 7 point font. If it’s a new doctor, you may not even have noticed that form in the deluge of...