Last week was a busy one for Carnegie Mellon University (CMU): Three researchers published a review on people’s attitudes toward privacy and how they change given context, and the Federal Trade Commission’s Julie Brill spoke on the Internet’s “accelerating encroachment into our private lives,” TNS reports. During her talk, Brill advocated for the passage of three new laws unveiled recently by President Barack Obama. “I do think there’s a place for industry self-regulation,” Brill said, though thus far it’s proved insufficient. Meanwhile, "approaches that rely exclusively on informing or 'empowering' the individual are unlikely to provide adequate protection against the risks posed by recent information technologies," CMU’s Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte and George Loewenstein wrote in their review.
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