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Upcoming Events
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Jun 15, 2012 | 5:00 PM
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School of Information Studies
2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization -
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
6:00-8:000pm
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UW-Milwaukee Union Theater (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd, 2nd floor)
Big Brother, Big Business: Data-Mining & Surveillance -
April 24, 2012 | 12:30 - 1:30PM
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Northwest Quadrant (NWQ) 3511
2025 E Newport
Milwaukee, WI 53211
B2A Brown Bag Presentation: Dr. Wilhelm Peekhaus
CIPR Co-Director Michael Zimmer Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education on Privacy & Research on Facebook
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article featuring CIPR Co-Director Michael Zimmer's research critiquing the privacy protections and research methods related to the “Taste, Ties, and Time” (T3) Facebook research study conducted by a set of Harvard sociologists.
Michael Zimmer, a privacy scholar at the U. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research, says the methods of the Harvard project "should have triggered an ethical concern."
The article, “Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students’ Privacy”, discusses a variety of privacy and research ethics concerns raised by Zimmer, and also features insights by former CIPR director Elizabeth Buchanan.
Read the full article here, and additional commentary by Zimmer on his blog.
