Location privacy
Forced consent, OUT: At RightsCon joining forces with digital human rights workers from around the world
Must consumers passively accept privacy policies/terms that permit businesses to share and use their personal information? Is all that patients can do just tolerate their medical and social welfare information being used for research by third parties without individual consent; besides withdrawing after the fact, is there no better way to ensure the right of consent? The International Digital Human Rights Conference RightsCon was held in Taiwan this year and TAHR was selected to organize a roundtable discussion. Together with digital human rights citizen groups and experts from around the world, we collectively identify patterns of behavior that qualify as…
Location-Tracking Data Is Privacy. Telecommunication Information Usage Requirements Need Further Scrutiny.
I-Chuan Wang, the Chief Executive Officer of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Policy Research and Coordinating Committee, stated in a political talk show that it is possible to compare crowd attributes between protestors against the abuse of legislative power and participants of the May-19th gathering in front of the DPP headquarters as well as the campaign before the recent Presidential election. Regardless of how such comparisons were carried out in practice, the analysis of location-tracking data mentioned in Wang’s statement has already fallen under the scope of “another purpose of collection” as laid out in the Personal Data Protection Act…