‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech

Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera

Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved.

Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for illegally accessing personal information

Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for illegally accessing personal information  Information Commissioner's Office

Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy

Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, if you're fancy). This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. Here are some things to know about DROP. (Don’t want all the details and want to just learn how to file a reque…

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Air Force One's Qatari jet needs security upgrades, experts say, but ask if a month is enough time

Air Force One's Qatari jet needs security upgrades, experts say, but ask if a month is enough time  Reuters

New Jersey’s New Data Privacy Rules: What Organizations Need to Know

New Jersey has enacted data privacy rules that place new obligations on organizations handling residents' personal information. Businesses operating in or targeting New Jersey consumers will need to review their data practices to ensure compliance.

Who should care: Lawyers · Compliance · General readers · Privacy officers · Policy

Palantir isn’t the only option for the NHS | Letter

Manchester’s integrated care board offers the health service a domestic alternative to the US firm, says Dr Devan Moodley Regarding Peter Geoghegan’s article (I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all, 15 July), the nine years that Greater Manchester’s health system has spent without Palantir is a result not of caution but bold conviction. Greater Manchester’s integrated care board remains the only one in England to decline the Palantir-built federated data platform, having concluded that its own homegrown data capabilit…