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California Legislator Proposes Revision to Law Regarding Personal Information...

  The proposed legislation is Assembly Bill No. 1291, which was introduced by Assembly Member Lowenthal on February 22, 2013.  If passed, the bill would replace some existing privacy related law....

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Want a job? Start Tweeting and get more Facebook Friends.

If you’re concerned about your privacy, one of the best things you can do is limit the places where you disclose anything about yourself. Sadly, it’s becoming more difficult to do that.  In particular,...

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Comments about the SEC – Social Media Thing are Annoying

The two most annoying things about the SEC – Social Media discussion are (a) the people that don’t get it, and (b) the people that say other people don’t get it. This sometimes happens when two worlds...

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I Thought This Blog Was About Big Data

Tuesday afternoon one my partners asked me what the discussion about securities law has to do with Big Data.  A good question.  I had three things in mind when I wrote the last couple of posts. First,...

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Big Data and Fragmenting Society

I spent some considerable time this weekend doing research on an article about Big Data and criminal law.  This got me thinking about how hard it is at this time to make significant changes in the law....

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Big Data and Financial Markets – Just Because We Can Do It Doesn’t Mean We...

So it appears it’s possible to predict movement in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  Serious technical stuff about this is here: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01684/full/srep01684.html...

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California Privacy Legislation – Not Happening

In an earlier post we discussed how, with respect to privacy issues, the quality of work in the California legislature seems to be much better than the work of the California Attorney General. Alas,...

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Versium Analytics – You Probably Don’t Know Them, They Might Know All about...

Versium is a data technology company that has a database they call ATLAS.  In that database are, in their words, “…billions of records with billions of real life attributes on consumers and...

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Speaking of Data Sellers – The FTC is Looking at Them

Given yesterday’s post, there is one bit of news we should not ignore.  This week the Federal Trade Commission announced it has been conducting an investigation of data brokers and their compliance (or...

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Gild Ranks Techies and Tells Employers Which Job Candidates Are Best

In a previous post, we discussed the possibility (apparently more than just a possibility) that employers would consider your score with a profiling “service” as part of the hiring process.  In that...

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Things We Can Learn about Big Data and the Law from the 3D Gun Printing Story

This is the first of a three-part series.   Today we consider what the 3D gun printing story can teach us about the Law of Unintended Consequences. The law of unintended consequences is my favorite...

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The 3D Gun Printing Example – Big Data Should Start Thinking about Export...

It appears that thumbing his nose at the idea of gun control was what Cody Wilson had in mind when he arranged to publish the plans for using a 3D printer to manufacture his plastic gun.  It also...

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The 3D Gun Printing Example – Maybe There are Some People You Don’t Want on...

This is not a hit job on Cody Wilson, tempting though it might be to write one. Here’s the thing – if I shared his world view, however you might define it, I wouldn’t want him on my side.  For a number...

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Current Privacy Regulation Might Not Protect Your Personal Information

A June 1 article in The New York Times highlights some of the issues we are concerned with here at Big Data and the Law.  The article is about what Kate Crawford, a researcher at Microsoft Research,...

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Big Data Malpractice

Garbage in, garbage out.  Remember that?  Some related observations from the article we discussed in our last post: The word “data” connotes fixed numbers inside hard grids of information, and as a...

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That NSA Thing

No doubt there has been enough written about this, and one more thing will be superfluous.  A blog named Big Data and the Law can’t avoid the subject though.  But before we get into the “and the Law”...

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That NSA Thing – Think about the Data for a Minute, Think about It Differently

I started doing some photography as a hobby this year.  One thing I learned in the process is that not seeing the forest for the trees isn’t always a problem.  Sometimes the trees deserve some...

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Big Data and the Law Now on Twitter

You’ll find me at Timothy Keller @bigdatalaw Filed under: Big Data

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The Future of Violating Your Privacy

Let’s discuss the personal information of the future – medical information.  Not just any information – information about your DNA.  (Please remember we don’t say personally identifiable information...

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It’s a Facebook Thing Now

I’d like to talk about something other than data gathering issues, but we keep hearing about new problems.  Here we go with the latest. The Apparent Facts Facebook creates “shadow profiles” about its...

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