[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #656: Privacy? Is there even such a thing any more?

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OPLIN 4Cast #656: Privacy? Is there even such a thing any more?
July 24th, 2019

[image: Portrait of camera headed man in suit as security concept] I
subscribe to a *lot *of different websites and blogs, as a way to look for
trends in tech and in the news cycle. There have probably been stories and
opinions about online privacy around as long as "online" itself has been
around. But...is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the seemingly
massive uptick in privacy problems making the news?

I had no problems coming up with a mere four (4) items to post for the
*4Cast* this week and my trends radar is going off the charts. Privacy
breaches are becoming not only par for the course, but are becoming
business as usual.

   -
   - Florida DMV makes millions selling Floridians' data...for pennies (and
   you can't opt out)
   <https://boingboing.net/2019/07/14/axciom-florida.html> [Boing Boing]
   "Axciom buys records from Florida's DMV (which include non-driver IDs) at
   $0.01/each. They're just one of many, many data-brokers who buy data from
   the state's DMV. So many, in fact, that the state turned over $77m in
   data-sales in 2017."
   - How private is your browser’s Private mode? Research into porn
   suggests “not very”
   <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/researchers-investigate-whether-major-advertisers-track-porn-habits-seems-likely/>
   [Ars Technica] " A forthcoming research paper [PDF] from researchers at
   Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Pennsylvania brings up
   the possibility that Google and Facebook might be tracking your porn
   history—and, perhaps more worrisome, that using Incognito mode doesn't
   help. "
   - Google agrees to pay $13 million in Street View privacy case
   <https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/tech/google-street-view-privacy-lawsuit-settlement/index.html>
   [CNN Business] " Google has agreed to pay a $13 million settlement that
   could resolve a class-action lawsuit over the company's collection of
   people's private information through its Street View project. "
   - The privacy panic over FaceApp
   <https://news.yahoo.com/the-privacy-panic-over-face-app-230003206.html>[Yahoo
   News] " By agreeing to the app's terms of service, users grant its creators
   "perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide" ownership
   of images used in the app and the freedom to "use, reproduce, modify,
   adapt, publish [and] translate" them however they see fit. "

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - "They're All the Same!" Stereotypical Thinking and Systematic Errors
   in Users' Privacy-Related Judgments About Online Services
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cph&AN=137356461&site=ehost-live>(
   Gerlach, J. P., Buxmann, P., & Dinev, T. (2019). “They’re All the Same!”
   Stereotypical Thinking and Systematic Errors in Users’ Privacy-Related
   Judgments About Online Services. *Journal of the Association for
   Information Systems*, *20*(6), 787–823. )
   - Online Privacy Is a Right, Not a Luxury
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=137113102&site=ehost-live>(
   Eddy, M. (2019). Online Privacy Is a Right, Not a Luxury. *PC Magazine*,
   31. )
   - Library Privacy in an Age of Browser Fingerprinting
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmh&AN=137300214>
   ( west, jessamyn. (2019). Library Privacy in an Age of Browser
   Fingerprinting. *Computers in Libraries*, *39*(5), 12–14. )

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