@WhatTheyKnow

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Joined July 2010
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You can follow current & former folks individually: @juliaangwin, @jenvalentino, @jsvine, @ashk4n, @emilysteel. Thanks so much! [3/3]
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We are continuing our privacy coverage, just not this Twitter feed. It's been fun, but I (@jenvalentino) have other responsibilities. [2/3]
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Hi everyone. It's the @whattheyknow gremlin here. Just wanted to let you know that this Twitter account is going inactive. [1/3]
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New FB tool lets cos target ppl using OFFLINE history from Epsilon, Acxiom. "Heavy juice buyers" & "Pepsi loyalists." on.wsj.com/Xs70p8
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Claire Cain Miller@clairecm5 Apr 2013
One of tech's most thoughtful analysts is scared of Facebook Home invading our privacy by tracking our every move. gigaom.com/2013/04/04/why-fa…
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Anton Troianovski@antontroian5 Apr 2013
New child online privacy regulations, years in the making, go into effect in July and are roiling the app industry. on.wsj.com/14HVZE9

Feathers Fly as New Rules Loom for Kids' Apps

App developers are bracing for updates to federal children's online privacy rules that seek to regulate some data-collection practices that have become routine in the app industry.

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Why people say they value their privacy but don't always act as though they do: nyti.ms/ZYotWa

Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy (Published 2013)

Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show.

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Upcoming Princeton conference on “big privacy," aggregate big-data analytics applied to private data. bit.ly/10pkrVC w @EdFelten
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Ryan Calo@rcalo22 Mar 2013
I'm speaking about big data and behavioral econ at Yale Law School Thursday. Stop by if you're in the area! yaleisp.org/event/thomson-re…
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Rebecca MacKinnon
@rmack21 Mar 2013
Microsoft publishes 1st transparency report on worldwide law enforcement requests for user data microsoft.com/about/corporat… #netfreedom
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ashkan soltani@ashk4n20 Mar 2013
Great visualization by @Evidon & @lowbrowkate on how cookie syncing is used to merge tracking data adage.com/article/dataworks/… click TrackerMap
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Julia Angwin@JuliaAngwin18 Mar 2013
Grover Norquist is taking on digital privacy as a cause politi.co/143iSlg >>Will there be a pledge?
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The Internet Is a Surveillance State, by Bruce Schneier: bit.ly/131wxdq
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EFF
@EFF15 Mar 2013
Our official reaction to the NSL ruling: "This small step should help restore balance between liberty and security." eff.org/r.b7Mp
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Oh hey! @whattheyknow won the Scripps Howard Award for Service to the First Amendment: bit.ly/YbT5n4 We LOVE the First Amendment!
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ashkan soltani@ashk4n13 Mar 2013
Sen @alfranken presses real-world analytics firm @EuclidAnalytics to Stop Tracking Consumers without Their Permission franken.senate.gov/?p=press_…
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How Chinese version of Microsoft's Skype allows monitoring: buswk.co/ZwDLQ0 by @VTSilver w @citizenlab and @unm
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What Data Brokers Know About You bit.ly/WPyMZ7 by @loisbeckett
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New Privacy Board Investigates Terrorism Agency’s Data Dragnet: on.wsj.com/WHyGmb

New Privacy Board Investigates Terrorism Agency's Data Dragnet

A newly established government privacy oversight board said Tuesday that it has begun investigating the National Counterterrorism Center's ability to scrutinize massive amount of information about...

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matt blaze
@mattblaze5 Mar 2013
Kudos to Google for negotiating the ability to publish any NSL data at all, however vague it may be. googleblog.blogspot.com/2013…
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