Update on research
With my application for promotion to Professor on the horizon, it is time to provide a research update, reviewing where I’m at and what I plan to accomplish in the coming year. This past...
Tagged: privacy
The Real Ugly Truth
While Kang and Frenkel provide a deep dive into Facebook’s history, the real ugly truth centers on the conflicting and biased writing embedded within.
The Paradox of Data Ownership on Privacy
Imagine for a moment you are walking down the street, see a friend, and stop to chat. You later tell a mutual friend about the meeting. Most of us would find little problem with...
Voices of eCommerce, Ep. 5 – with guest Daniel Barber, CEO of DataGrail
Daniel Barber, CEO and co-founder of DataGrail, joins us to talk about his career and the growing need for companies to manage customer privacy amid new regulations. Specifically, we discuss: How living and working...
Do your words matter on Facebook?
Thought of the day: Perhaps the reason Facebook has gained so much data is because we, the users, don’t value our own words and actions enough. Do our words matter? Do we value them?...
Four unresolved issues in privacy
Recently a friend and colleague asked me about key areas of conflict in the field of privacy. After a bit of brainstorming, I came up with four such issues. Information privacy versus information disclosure....
Research trifecta
In the past couple weeks, I’ve experienced three research accomplishments, at three increasingly better journals. It’s convinced me that I am really starting to get the hang of this research thing. First, my article...
Apple’s Fight for Your Privacy
Recently, Apple announced they were publicly fighting a court order to help the FBI to decrypt a phone in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. From my understanding, the court is ordering Apple to re-write...
The Egoist Case for Privacy
After 8 years of writing, editing, re-writing, editing again, submissions, rejections, more submissions, and subsequent revisions, my article Asking for Facebook Logins: An Egoist Case for Privacy was finally accepted for publication in the Journal...
On the Question of Privacy
“Dad, Thomas keeps looking at me.” At one time or another, most people with siblings or multiple children have heard of (or experienced) this problem. On face of it, the complaint seems silly. So...