Voices For Privacy Blog

Privacy News for April 27: Check out the libraries celebrating Choose Privacy Week, the CLOUD Act rains on your data privacy, a call for new privacy norms, Google targets biometric privacy, a new bill to regulate Big Data, student privacy, RFID, Facebook, encryption, and more.

This week’s privacy news: Choose Privacy Week 2018, Are libraries learning the wrong lesson from Facebook?, Algorithms, Big Data, and Corporate Surveillance, more (and more) Facebook privacy fails, students monitored by Android apps, Google loses right to be forgotten case, encryption craziness, and more.

In the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony last week and the related explosion of public interest in how online personal data is collected, stored, shared, used and sometimes misused, this year’s CPW theme—“Big Data is Watching You”—could not be more perfectly timed.

This week’s privacy news; Librarians speak on data privacy, kids’ data privacy & state privacy laws under attack, regulating Facebook, and Facebook as a force for good in teachers’ strikes.

This week in #privacy: even more user data breached, CLOUD Act moots Microsoft privacy fight, Facebook’s apology tour, Census privacy concerns, corporate #surveillance, tips on privacy self-defense, EU privacy law brings changes, encryption, and more.