This is the event data we collected on news reports about compromised personal records from 1980-2006. The data was used in several articles and book chapters. While there is no formal code book we thought it was time to share the data and the best summary of our definition of [...]
Howard, Philip N., and Daniel Kreiss. “Political Parties & Voter Privacy: Australia, Canada, the United States and United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective.” First Monday 15, no. 12. Political parties are among the most lax, unregulated organizations handling large volumes of personally identifiable data about citizens’ behavior and attitudes. We analyze [...]
Kreiss, Daniel, and Philip N. Howard. “New Challenges to Political Privacy: Lessons from the First U.S. Presidential Race in the Web 2.0 Era.” International Journal of Communication 4, no. 3. Pundits and scholars laud online campaigning for its potential to democratize politics and praise the 2008 Barack Obama campaign for [...]
Interviewed for James Verini’s investigative piece on Aristotle Inc.
Kris Erickson and Philip N. Howard. “A Case of Mistaken Identity? News Accounts of Hacker and Organizational Responsibility for Compromised Digital Records.” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 12, no. 4 (2007). The computer hacker is one of the most vilified figures in the digital era, but to what degree are [...]
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