At press time today, there was news of a group collecting those impacted in a class action lawsuit due to the Equifax breach. Breach victims have cause to sue any negligent agency. The Equifax breach was particularly awful because they assumed protective responsibility for those in harms way of data breaches and information security threats.
Read moreADAPTATION: Adjusting your mental preferences for human choice
If you could buy online without compromising everything about yourself, would you opt for it? If there was an acceptable data currency to spring into the data business, instead of yourself, would you work toward trading on the alternative currency? Choice and economic alternatives can also be invented for mutual benefit of companies and consumers. It could all work out if we spent more time and energy on how to give privacy choice a chance.
Read moreAn Ethical Horizon for Artificial Intelligence: TRULY FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICE (Part 3/4)
Everything is negotiable. You need only ask.
As information security risk to businesses increases, the risk is passed directly to the consumer. If you go in on an agreement with a technology service where you absorb more personal risk than [you did] 3 years ago, you should have some leverage in deal making.Read more
Privacy-as-Public-Affairs is more than narrative shaping for media
If you have news about your company’s privacy amenities, a new civic privacy partnership or a pro-sumer privacy initiative, I might be interested in featuring your work on this blog under the heading Real Privacy.
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