Tag: Privacy
Your digital footprints are more than a privacy risk – they...
Ravi Sen, Texas A&M University
When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set...
Jack Dorsey’s decision to quit Twitter is not a vote of...
Theo Tzanidis, University of the West of Scotland
When Jack Dorsey made the sudden public announcement that he had...
Apple’s plan to scan your phone raises the stakes on a...
Laurin Weissinger, Tufts University
Apple’s plan to scan customers’ phones and other devices for images depicting child sexual abuse...
Paying with a palm print? We’re victims of our own psychology...
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The online retail giant Amazon has moved from our screens to our streets, with...
What are dark patterns? An online media expert explains
Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida
Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors...
What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A health law scholar explains
Margaret Riley, University of Virginia
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting...
Body cameras help monitor police but can invade people’s privacy
Bryce C. Newell, University of Oregon
In the course of their work, police officers encounter people who are intoxicated,...
Companies accused of crimes get more digital privacy rights than people...
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University - Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University
Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
