Tag: Regulation

October 29, 2018

The promise of blockchain is often described as a, “transfer of trust in a trustless world.” The distributed ledger technology eliminates the need for centralized third parties to verify transactions, and all participating parties are anonymous. It is incredibly difficult […]

September 25, 2018

In late August, the General Services Administration (GSA) released a request for proposal (RFP) for entity validation services that could significantly improve the Federal government’s ability to identify contractors and grantees and track them accurately in government computer systems over […]

September 18, 2018

Government agencies such as the National Institute for Standards and Technology and industry groups such as the Internet Association have embraced privacy as a matter of risk management. This is certainly the right way to go. But, to make it […]

August 30, 2018

The latest data sharing proposal comes from Prof. Myer-Schonberger, whose previous work on big data and the right to delete information won him a wide following in policy circles. The key idea is that companies above a certain size would […]

August 14, 2018

As privacy controversies continue to absorb public attention both here and in Europe, we are hearing more and more about manipulative “dark patterns” where online services nudge people toward their preferred choices. One consumer report says these websites might be […]

July 18, 2018

Now that the build-up to GDPR is over, I wanted to get a sense for CIOs progress at implementing GDPR. Given this, I asked the #CIOChat which covers a broad range of industries. Their answers should be valuable to all […]

June 28, 2018

It’s not just you. Since the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) went into effect on May 25, companies have been ramping up those opt-in boxes, website banners, and emails updating you on the additional permissions needed to track […]

June 28, 2018

The open government data movement came into its own with the Obama administration, at a time when governments—and society more broadly—was beginning to truly realize the value of government data, and open-standards were taking root as drivers of innovation. The […]

June 13, 2018

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation went into effect on May 25. Daniel Solove speaks for many when he described it as the most comprehensive and nuanced data protection regime in the world, providing for “individual rights such as […]

June 7, 2018

The European Union’s well-publicized General Data Protection Regulation that went into force on May 25 is a much-needed update to its 1995 Data Protection Directive and in many ways a substantial improvement. As leading privacy scholar Daniel Solove says it […]