Big Data

• The E-Books Are Reading You #EUdataP http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/technology/as-new-services-track-habits-the-e-books-are-reading-you.html …
• Retailers, Supermarkets, Medical Markets Dive In To Extract Information From And About Consumers http://ow.ly/rYTdJ 

California Privacy

• California’s New Do-Not-Track Law Goes Into Effect January 1, 2014, Remember To Check Your Privacy Policy For … http://ow.ly/2Clqu3 

CAN-SPAM

• Court Accepts Narrow View of CAN-SPAM Preemption but Ultimately Dismisses Claims – Davison Design v. Riley http://ow.ly/2CjRsh 

COPPA

• FTC Approves Knowledge-based Identification for COPPA Verifiable Parental Consent Method http://1.usa.gov/19me2UC 

Data Breaches

• Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack http://ow.ly/2CsYMy 
• Who’s Selling Credit Cards from Target? http://ow.ly/2CokRQ 
• Better understanding of the Target breach through Credit Card anatomy http://ow.ly/2CnxOx 
• Stolen Target Credit Cards Are Selling For $20 $100 Each http://ow.ly/2CiIXr 
• Non-US Cards Used At Target Fetch Premium http://ow.ly/2Clf3p 
• Creator of Mariposa Botnet sentenced to 58 months in jail http://ow.ly/2CsBOL 
• TX: Former Cuero city secretary charged with intercepting police emails http://ow.ly/2CpWSh 
• CN: Gang selling personal information busted http://ow.ly/2CnbRu 
• WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison http://ow.ly/2CmrSD 
• Washington University in St. Louis notifies business partners after laptop with unencrypted PII stolen http://ow.ly/2Cka9D 
• Cruises Inc. notifies customers after booking system accessed by compromised login credentials http://ow.ly/2Ck5S2 
• UK: Men who obtained personal data from West Ham officials during Olympic Stadium bid fined thousands of pounds http://ow.ly/2CjQuL 
• TechMedia Network to start notifying customers of hack involving credit card data http://ow.ly/2CiIXq 
• Update on the Clark & Anderson, P.A. breach http://ow.ly/2Ckeb2 
• Affinity Gaming announces breach affecting all 11 casinos; fraudulent charges reported http://ow.ly/2Cj2QN 

Data Brokers/FCRA

• What Surveillance Valley knows about you http://pando.com/2013/12/22/a-peek-into-surveillance-valley/ …

EU Data Protection

• PT: ANACOM adopts security breach notification procedures http://ow.ly/2ColbT 

Fourth Amendment 

• Senders’ Fourth Amendment Rights in E-mails Seized from the E-mail Accounts of Recipients http://ow.ly/2CqSvz 
• Hotels Don’t Have to Hand Over Guest Records, Appeals Court Says http://ow.ly/2CpLf5 

IoT (Internet of Things)

• Les hôpitaux sont en passe de devenir des agrégateurs d’objets connectés http://si-management.blogspot.fr/2013/11/les-hopitaux-sont-en-passe-de-devenir.html …
• Fantastic analysis (3 parts) on #IoT .@qz http://buff.ly/1hwf3cD  Well on our way to having sensors on us, around us, and inside us.

NSA

• U.S. judge says NSA phone data program is lawful http://ow.ly/2CsYcP 
• N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules http://ow.ly/s67rm 
• How to Evaluate Whether the NSA’s Telephony Metadata Program Makes Us Safer (and What Proponents and Opponents… http://ow.ly/2CsHc4 
• Obama’s NSA Phone Spying Reforms Might Make Things Worse http://ow.ly/2Csw7d 
• Edward Snowden’s Christmas Message http://ow.ly/2CpEpx 
• Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished http://ow.ly/2CnBN7 
• Liberals and Conservatives Switch Positions on NSA Surveillance http://ow.ly/2CoaNb 
• RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship http://ow.ly/2ClJir 
• President’s Review Group will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee January 14th http://ow.ly/2ClmJ4 
• EFF Statement on Government’s Release of Documents in EFF’s NSA lawsuit http://ow.ly/2CkuPB 
• The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-24/a-new-twist-in-international-relations-the-corporate-keep-my-data-out-of-the-u-s-clause.html …

Social Media

• Financial Regulators Finalize Social Media Guidance and Address Industry Questions http://ow.ly/2CmT68 
• AAUP Says Kansas Regents’ New Faculty Social Media Use Policy Violates Academic Freedom (Guest Blog Post) http://ow.ly/2Cmz2D 

Technology and Lifestyles, New Developments in

•   Consumers Will Pay $5 for an #App That Respects Their Privacy – Atlantic Mobile http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/study-consumers-will-pay-5-for-an-app-that-respects-their-privacy/282663/ …
• People Are More Freaked Out by Hacking Than Tracking, Survey Finds http://ow.ly/2CmOOt 
• Justine Sacco’s Nightmare Before Christmas, Twitter-Version http://ow.ly/2Cka9E 

Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA)

• Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge rules http://ow.ly/2Cn2Kl 

Year in Review

• The Year in BigData: http://t.co/tERoQzq9LV
• My five big data FAQs of 2013 http://ift.tt/1dGWJdZ 
• IAPP : The Year’s Top 10 Stories in The Privacy Advisor https://www.privacyassociation.org/publications/the_years_top_10_stories_in_the_privacy_advisor …
•  2013 REVIEW Top 10 IT #privacy stories of 2013 http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240210682/Top-10-IT-privacy-stories-of-2013 …
• The Biggest Privacy Stories of 2013 http://ow.ly/2CmPpS 
• More than 1,400 Financial institutions in 88 Countries targeted by Banking Trojan in 2013 http://ow.ly/2ClqIf 

  2014

• 12 big data predictions on BigData http://bit.ly/1fM0yAc 
• 7 BigData Trends for 2014 http:/ http://ow.ly/s6gIv
• Mobile Devices Biggest Business Security Threat in 2014 http://ow.ly/2CsRii 
• The Internet Of Things In 2014: Steady As It Goes http://ow.ly/s6bWE 
• Top Technology Trends for 2014: From Internet of Things to Web of Things. http://www.computer.org/portal/web/membership/Top-10-Tech-Trends-in-2014
• Big Bang Disruption: The “Internet Of Things” Takes Off, Gradually And Then Suddenly – Forbes http://ift.tt/1dHrMq7 
• How the “internet of things” will replace the web http://ow.ly/rZkxq 
• 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time – Quartz http://ift.tt/1bjeYr4