25Apr/110
Data Ethics, Privacy, and Responsibility
We've seen a lot of high profile data privacy and data leak issues in the news lately.
- Facebook is constantly under fire, for apparent lapses in securing private data.
- Just today, classified documents from Guantanamo Bay were leaked to the public. In fact, these were leaked by WikiLeakes, who was in the news frequently in the last few years for similar leaks.
- Millions of passwords were stolen from gawker media
- News that credit card data is targeted and stolen appears almost routinely these days.
- Dropbox's privacy policy has been under attack due to apparently misleading comments about data encryption and security
- Some smartphones are keeping track of where you've been either by design or by error, but raising privacy concerns either way
And I'm sure the list could go on and on and on...