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Berkeley Law: Browser Privacy Mechanisms Roundtable
Berkeley Law Berkeley, CA | February 9, 2011 I gave a tutorial on the state of online tracking. Audio archive. Transcript. The Federal Trade Commission preliminary staff report, “Protecting Consumer...
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Future of Privacy Forum Presents – Personal Information: The Benefits and...
Future of Privacy Forum National Press Club, Washington, DC | December 5, 2011 On December 5, 2011, leading academics, advocates, Chief Privacy Officers, legal experts and policymakers gathered to...
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OPEN Silicon Valley: Big Data –The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
OPEN Silicon Valley Forum Mountain View, CA | June 2, 2012 Online privacy concerns have confounded many an entrepreneurs and taken some off-guard. The recent episodes of Path address book uploads,...
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Amsterdam Privacy Conference: Behavioural Targeting and Privacy
Amsterdam Privacy Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands | October 7-10, 2012 This interdisciplinary panel brought together leading scholars from Europe and the United States to present and discuss...
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Congressional Internet Caucus: Enabling Do Not Track Privacy- Is It Dead or...
Washington DC | May 24, 2013 A panel of experts discussed the current state of “Do Not Track” efforts. I focused on the technical difficulty of blocking tracking and ways to ensure consumers have a...
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Questions on the Google AdID
I’ve received a few inquiries about the recent announcement of Google AdID. Because Google hasn’t released many details about the implementation, I am a bit reluctant to speculate too broadly. However,...
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CIR/NPR Collaboration – Your Data and Who Has Access to It
I collaborated with NPR and the Center for Investigative Reporting to develop this script describing who is tracking you throughout your day. The video shows how your digital trail can be assembled...
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The Limits of Harvesting Users Online
The state of New Jersey recently announced a $1 million settlement with E-Sports Entertainment, LLC over allegations that the company installed malware on its customers’ computers. The Attorney General...
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Security at the Mercy of Advertising
Yahoo’s latest move is yet another example of the tension between end-user security and the online advertising ecosystem. Last year, Yahoo announced plans to enable encryption by default as a direct...
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Announcing Floodwatch
Most web users are now pretty aware that their browsing and searching habits are constantly tracked. This tracking data is captured by advertising companies that then feed our information into...
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