An
interesting read. Work backward from the potential harms?
Paul
Ohm has an article, “Sensitive Information,” to be published in
Southern California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015. Here’s the
Abstract:
Almost every information privacy law provides special protection for
certain categories of “sensitive information,” such as health,
sex, or financial information. Even though this approach is
widespread, the concept of
sensitive information is woefully undertheorized. What is
it about these categories that deserves special protection? This
Article offers an extended examination of this question. It surveys
dozens of laws and regulations to develop a multi-factor test for
sensitivity.
From this survey, the Article concludes that sensitive information is
connected to privacy harms affecting individuals. Consistent with
this, at least for the case of privacy in large databases, it
recommends a new “threat
modeling” approach to assessing the risk of harm in privacy law,
borrowing from the computer security literature. Applying this
approach it concludes that we should create new laws recognizing the
sensitivity of currently unprotected forms of information — most
importantly geolocation and some forms of metadata — because they
present significant risk of privacy harm.
You
can download the article from SSRN.
Surveil
yourself with your own drone!
Take
a selfie on the go! Wearable DRONE films your every move before
flying back to sit on your wrist
In
what’s been dubbed a cross between a GoPro and a quadcopter,
physics researchers have designed the world's first wearable drone.
Called
Nixie, the drone folds up and attaches to a wrist strap.
When
the wearer wants it to start filming, they press a button and the
drone unfolds and flies overhead, tracking their movements using
motion sensors.
Could
be interesting.
Journal
of Electronic Publishing – Metrics for Measuring Publishing Value
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Sep 28, 2014
Journal
of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is a forum for research and
discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of
those practices upon users
Volume
17, No. 3: Metrics for Measuring Publishing Value: Alternative and
Otherwise
Title:
Author(s):
Editor’s
Note [17.3]: Bonn,
Maria:
The
Imperative for Open Altmetrics: Konkiel, Stacy;
Piwowar, Heather; Priem, Jason:
Measuring
Openness and Evaluating Digital Academic Publishing Models: Not Quite
the Same Business:
De Grandis, Giovanni; Neuman, Yrsa:
Industrial
Strength Graduates and Commercially Viable Apps:Duhring,
John:
Peer
Review Personas: Belojevic, Nina; Sayers, Jentery;
Research Teams, INKE and MVP:
Book
Reviews and Digital Scholarship:MacKay, Camilla:
Computational
Impact Assessment of Social Justice Documentaries:Diesner,
Jana; Kim, Jinseok; Pak, Susie:
For
my programmer/geeks.
9
Free Programming Books That Will Make You A Pro
For
my students. Oh, the horror!
Repeated
Texting Can Thicken the Tendons in Your Thumbs
The
tendon that extends to the tip of the thumb showed significant
thickening in research subjects who were frequent texters
and who repeatedly flexed the interphalangeal joint, which is closest
to the thumbnail, while texting, according to a medical study
reported by the Wall Street Journal. The greater the number
of texts, the thicker the tendon. Frequent texters (an average of
1,209 messages per month) reported greater thumb
pain in the dominant texting hand than infrequent texters (50
per month).
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