Digital Risk Strategies

Archive for April, 2011

Is it Time to Ditch Your Facebook Account?

Icon April 19, 2011 – 7:28 am

A recently published study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that the brain’s capacity to move back and forth from distractions diminishes with age.  The findings, which were reported in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 11, 2011), ultimately suggest that multi-tasking may impact [...]



Location-Based Tracking Data Creates a New Privacy Concern

Icon April 1, 2011 – 12:34 pm

On March 25, 2011, Fordham Law School conducted a timely symposium on the legal and privacy policy implications of location-based technologies, i.e., those technologies that collect and use data indicating a person’s specific physical location.  The lively panel discussions all had one underlying theme – location-based tracking may be pervasive but the relevant policies are [...]