Opinion: Congress – Pass Federal Privacy Legislation to Support Texas Small Businesses

Opinion: The co-founder of Tiny House Coffee Roasters offers a solution to the patchwork system of privacy laws that is crushing small businesses

"...to confront a harsh reality: The sheer number of data privacy laws makes compliance a legal nightmare – and..."

July 8, 2022 Column by Blake Thomas

The Perils of Big Data

The up- and downsides of student information collection

"...to give educators and administrators easy access to student data. Districts and states could input around 400 different data..."

March 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Panel: You Are Not Anonymous: The Myth of Online Privacy

The moving hand clicks, and its activity is tracked and sold everywhere

"...virtual private network, so as to keep my personal data secret and unsold online, unlike what typically happens in..."

March 13, 2017 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Opinion: We Can’t Let Coronavirus Distract Us From Data Collection and Climate Change

We cannot give companies slack on environmental regulations during the pandemic – and that includes those running energy-gorging data centers

"...our lives increasingly online amidst social distancing measures. Mass data collection, after all, contributes to climate change...."

May 1, 2020 Column by Tracy O’Neill

Austin Music Census Data Will Remain Private

Attorney General grants exemption from open records requests

"...the survey, isn’t required to turn over the raw data to parties making public information filings...."

Feb. 1, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Education Data Panel Highlights at SXSWedu 2015

"...9 1:30pm, Hilton Salon K: How to Create a Data Privacy Policy, Amelia Vance, National Association of State Boards..."

March 6, 2015 News Feature

Online Privacy: Technical, Political, or Both?

When it comes to encryption, there's solidarity in numbers

"..."makers and thinkers and the development community" to "protect [privacy and security] through technical standards" that can outrun the..."

March 28, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

APD Pot-Hunters Are Data-Mining at AE

Are you using 'too much' energy? Inquiring drug cops want to know.

"...then accessing a discrete and particular set of energy-consumption data in order to verify other evidence that suggests a..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Securus Leak Reveals Privacy Breach

Documents show Securus committed more than 14,000 violations of attorney-client privilege nationwide

"...A data leak to Intercept staffer and Chronicle alum Jordan Smith..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Watching the Watchmen

A crash course in privacy, in case you've been (not unreasonably) living under a rock

"...Perhaps counterintuitively, privacy is an inherently social concept. What are people willing..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Council Preview: Automatic License Plate Readers to Return?

Advocates call on CMs to just say no to controversial program

"...A coalition of criminal justice and privacy advocates have called on City Council to reject the..."

Aug. 30, 2022 News Post by Austin Sanders

Some (Re)Assembly Required

From mapping to extrapolating, recontextualizing the data we've been given

"...But the same doesn't go for information in our data-choked age, right?..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

SXSW: Freedom of Your Information

If everyone cares about privacy, why do we give it away?

"...interactive world may be bullish about the future of privacy. And then they'll use free services that data mine..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Jason Bourne

The former CIA op resurfaces in a new era of electronic surveillance

"...join her in her self-appointed mission to expose government data. She has joined forces with a Julian Assange/Edward Snowden-type..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Invaluable Information

Technology, privacy, hacking, and legislating in the new Digital Age

"...the business and confiscated computers, violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in the process. Jackson was the wrong guy..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Naked City

Enviros question whether employees would really drive fewer miles to new campus

"...no easy feat – in the name of employee privacy, AMD did not release the full data set of..."

July 29, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Austin Scientists Focus on Helping AI Do Good

Weighing the pros, cons, and concerns of humanity's future overlords

"...on experience), reasoning (the ability to draw conclusions from data), and self-correction," ChatGPT answered...."

March 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Nursing-Home Families Want Answers as COVID Comes Back

Still seeking safety as the data remains unclear

"...to report their COVID-19 cases and deaths. Yet clear data about how well specific nursing facilities have responded to..."

July 3, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

SXSW Announces First 2023 Speakers

Olympian and entrepreneur Allyson Felix, Cecile Richards, more

"...we be sure that our Digital Identities won’t be data mined, duplicated, or stolen? In this session, join Senior..."

Aug. 30, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Firefighters in Action

Snowden and allies on the tech side of human rights and personal privacy

"...tech workers who best understand the tools to protect privacy – to work with users and companies to improve..."

March 14, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Lege Lines: Bathroom Bill Steals Spotlight

"Texas Privacy Act" isn't about privacy – it's about transphobia

"...with their "biological sex," on the grounds of supposed privacy. House Admin­i­stration Committee Chair Charlie Geren, R-Fort Worth, swept..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Sports' Body Politics

The ethics behind data mining athletes' emotions

"...terms of wholesale evaluation. "I try to triangulate that data with my own observations. We're kind of still at..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

SXSW Panel Combines Brain and Computer Power Through Neurotech

The future is here and kinda terrifying

"...interfaces. Molnar’s headphones fall into the passive category, processing data asynchronously and allowing users to access it later. At..."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Madeline Duncan

Planned Parenthood Records Raided

Health provider vows to maintain patient privacy amid government crackdown

"...and phone numbers; and stunningly, they expected all the data delivered just 24 hours later...."

Nov. 6, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Is Ron Paul A Domestic Terrorist?

One fusion center apparently thinks so

"...public safety. At worst, they pose a threat to privacy, religious freedom and free speech – and in some..."

Sept. 12, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Ray Wants to Bring Electric Car Charging Stations and Roads to Central Texas

Helping Austin travelers reach the future faster

"...toll fees. The billing system also relies heavily on data from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, which is..."

April 16, 2021 News Feature by Benton Graham

The AggreGAYtor: June 10

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...The NSA’s PRISM program’s assault on privacy rights is an assault on LGBTQ rights...."

June 10, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Review: We Fell For Made For Love

Decoding the first three episodes of HBO Max's techno-dystopia

"...to see her every move and track her “emotional data.” That, understandably, was the last straw...."

April 5, 2021 Screens Post by Laiken Neumann

Making Abortion Harder, Vol. 877,834

A bill that passed through senate today puts a new level of bureaucracy on medical staff practicing abortions.

"...lack identifying information about the patient, but the procedure data will be collected and, it can only be presumed,..."

April 26, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...has already signed up to work on informational and data privacy issues such as the "sneak and peek" warrant,..."

Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature

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