Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Watch Out for Biplanes

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 They killed the last two American troops who were attacked from the air (towards the end of the Korean war.) That factoid from David Kilcul...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Even Bees Are Losing Their Privacy

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Modern Farmer note s that beekeepers are being offered the ability to monitor their bees online, meaning a loss of privacy.  In partial comp...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

MFP and Privacy of Data

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Article in the newspaper, lost track of which one, reporting that FSA had issued something like $23 million in MFP payments so far. I'...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Tabarrok's Great Post re: Facebook

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Alex Tabarrok is the less prominent blogger at Marginal Revolution, but I think his post  yesterday is great.  He makes the point that mu...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

How Times Have Changed: Test Data

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The Times had an article on the theft by three Homeland Security employees of a set of personal data of DHS employees. What were they goin...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Half-Life of Information

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In the dispute between the FBI and Apple over obtaining access to the terrorist's cellphone data I thought of the concept in my title.  ...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Privacy and Genealogy

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Made a run to the store, first for Starbucks, then for food. (My priorities).  The brain cells are clicking just enough to comment on gene...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Boxers or Briefs?

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That was the question President Clinton was asked on some show which some people thought he shouldn't have been on and definitely should...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

What Illegal Spying Is Not So Bad?

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Seems that some of the cases where NSA employees definitely broke the law involved spying on significant others.  See this piece.   Somehow...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

"Personal Data"

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Some senators get upset by EPA releasing personal data tied to CAFO's.  I continue to be perplexed--I think it was the DC Circuit Co...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Drones and Farming

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Via Marginal Revolution, here's a Daily Beast piece on drones in farming.  Unlimited possibilities, particularly with precision farming...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Paradox of "Food Insecurity"

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ERS has its annual report on food insecurity. There's a paradox here: the number of people receiving food stamps is at an all-time hig...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

Restaurants and Their Customers

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The NYTimes had an article on how restaurants are tracking their customers, recording their preferences: Even a single visit can prompt th...
Friday, July 20, 2012

No One Ever Washed a Rental Car

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That's my best memory of something some economist once said.  Turns out the Zipcar is just another rental, according to this from Treeh...
Monday, June 20, 2011

The Natural Limits on Prying

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Kevin Drum has good fun mocking the rapidly expanding military use of drone aircraft as a jobs program (described in an article in today...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Tracking People, Cover Stories, Registries, and Ankle Bracelets

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I've noticed and sometimes blogged about a modern trend towards tracking people.  Lots of states, maybe all states, have registries for ...
Thursday, January 06, 2011

The Nosy Book

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First heard the term "nosy book" in a chat last week.  Seems to be a name for a local directory, including names, addresses, phone...
Saturday, November 07, 2009

Bureacucratic Catch-22

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I'm no fan of HIPAA, the law which tries to protect the privacy of patients.  Here's an example. --applying the law literally can p...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Student Aid Applications and the IRS

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The NYTimes has an article on: The Obama administration is moving to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid , or Fafsa, a no...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Personal Information

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Back in the day, when the Privacy Act was first enacted, we notified all program participants their information was personal and protected f...