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The Lab Streaming Layer for Synchronized Multimodal Recording
Abstract Accurately recording the interactions of humans or other organisms with their environment or other agents requires synchronized data access via multiple instruments, often running independently using different clocks. Active, hardware-mediated solutions are often infeasible or prohibitively costly to build and run across arbitrary collections of input systems.
Time for a New Privacy Paradigm
The world has changed; our laws haven’t. Let’s roll the clock back 40 years. A customer walks into a store looking for a pair of sunglasses. She tries on several pairs and settles on one. She pays by cash and takes the item home. The store doesn’t know her name or anything about her. She leaves with her item and that’s it. Today, data flows have become infinitely more complex in what has come to be known as surveillance capitalism – the pervasive and comprehensive tracking of consumers’ movements.
Consumer & Data Protection: A New Approach to Intersecting Risks
New data trails combined with data analytics capabilities can bring financially excluded and underserved consumers, such as women, into the formal financial system. This opportunity is accelerating with the adoption of open banking, open finance, and ultimately open data. However, data misuse in financial services, including identity theft, is one of the fastest-growing consumer risks according to recent CGAP research.
Financial Scams Rise as Coronavirus Hits Developing Countries
Civil Society, Economy & Trade, Featured, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Inequity, TerraViva United Nations Opinion By David Medine Reprint | | Print | David Medine is Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
Companies, not people, should bear the burden of protecting data
Privacy isn’t dead as some would suggest … but consent is. When was the last time you read a privacy policy for the apps on your mobile phone? Did you know that apps have privacy policies? How about reading the cookie notice on web pages you visit? Or reading the privacy notice on Internet-of-Things devices like your baby monitor? Let’s face it—almost nobody spends time reading privacy notices, and if you did it would take 76 work days per year to get through them.
Nobody Reads Privacy Policies: Why We Need to Go Beyond Consent to Ensure Data Privacy
In the age of the internet and Big Data, when much of our economic and social activity takes place online (and leaves a digital trail), it’s hard to maintain even a semblance of data privacy. That’s why some analysts, like prominent privacy lawyer Rahul Matthan, have largely lost faith in the concept of providing consent for outside entities to use our personal data.
Privacy by design for financial services
India also stands at the forefront of the debate over data protection, helping to shape the global dialogue on next-generation ways to protect data. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/MintThe rapid evolution of digital payments is altering the landscape of India and is serving as a model for other countries. The entry point for the Indian consumer is increasingly digital and remote, resulting in a revolutionary change in the way financial services are delivered.
Reform Surveillance, Don’t End It
A vital surveillance program expires at the end of the year. If Congress fails to act before then, the intelligence community will lose one of its most critical counterterrorism tools. But if it follows the Trump administration’s request and makes the program permanent without change, Americans’ privacy could be endangered. We urge Congress to add important privacy protections. At issue is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008.
How Developing Countries Can Prevent Their Own Equifax Breach
Developing countries have a great advantage when it comes to data security — they can learn from the lessons of developed countries. The recent incident involving the security breach at the American credit bureau Equifax, that exposed the personal information of over 145 million people, provides two important lessons: avoid big databases where possible and give consumers more control over their personal information.
Security vs. liberty a false choice (Opinion)
The recent terror attacks in Paris were a horrible tragedy, claiming 130 lives and injuring hundreds of innocent people who were just going about their lives on a Friday evening. We are all saddened by the unthinkable stories that witnesses and victims have shared about the night that France -- and the world -- will never forget.
Security vs. liberty a false choice (Opinion)
David Medine is chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency within the executive branch whose mission is to ensure that the federal government's efforts to prevent terrorism are balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not represent the views of the board or any other board member.
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The United States Needs a Drone Board
If we’re going to keep killing citizens by drone, we need a better form of due process for it. Today we learned that in January, a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan inadvertently killed an American and an Italian held as hostages by al Qaeda. The strike also killed a U.S. citizen who was a prominent member of al Qaeda. A separate operation in January killed an American-born al Qaeda spokesman.
NSA’s Section 215 Telephony Metadata Program Should and Can Be Shut Down
By David Medine Friday, February 13, 2015 at 7:40 AM One year ago, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) reviewed the National Security Agency’s bulk telephony metadata program and concluded the program was both illegal and imprudent as a policy matter.
NSA’s Section 215 Telephony Metadata Program Should and Can Be Shut Down
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With One year ago, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) reviewed the National Security Agency’s bulk telephony metadata program and concluded the program was both illegal and imprudent as a policy matter.
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