Science, 30 January 2015;347 (table of contents)

(has many articles besides the following)

A new drug war, 469 ("designer" recreational drugs)

Balancing privacy versus accuracy in research protocols, 479

The selfish voter, p482 ("A closer look at the factors that influence our political preferences" Review of Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban, The hidden agenda of the political mind. How self-interest shapes our opinions and why we won't admit it. Princeton Univ Press, 2014

Game of drones, 497

Control use of data to protect privacy, 504

What the "right to be forgotten" means for privacy in a digital age, 507

*** Privacy and human behavior in the age of information, Alessandro Acquisti et al., p509.

• "... all else being equal, intimacy of self-disclosure is higher in warm, comfortable rooms, with soft lighting, than in cold rooms with bare cement and overhead fluorescent lighting (49)."
• "With the emergence of the information age, growing institutional and economic interests have developed around disclosure of personal information, from online social networks to behavioral advertising. it is not surprising, therefore, that some entities have an interest in, and have developed expertise in, exploiting behavioral and psychological processes to promote disclosure (61)."
• "In addition to default settings, websites can also use design features that frustrate or even confuse users into disclosing personal information (66), a practice that has been referred to as 'malicious interface design' (67). Another obvious strategy that commercial entities can use to avoid raising privacy concerns is not to 'ring alarm bells' when it comes to data collection."
• "Perversely, 62% of respondents to a survey believed (incorrectly) that the existence of a privacy policy implied that a site could not share their personal information without permissio (40), which suggests that simply posting a policy that consumers do not read may lead to misplaced feelings of being protected."
• "In principle, it [control] does provide users with the means to manage access to their personal information. Research, however, shows that control can reduce privacy concern (46), which in turn can have unintended effects."
• "Research has highlighted not only that an overwhelming majority of Internet users do not read privacy policies (72, but also that few users would benefit from doing so; nearly half of a sample of online privacy policies were found to be written in language beyond the grasp of most Internet users (73). Indeed, and somewhat amusingly, it has been estimated that the aggregate opportunity cost if U.S. consumers actually read the privacy policies of the sites they visit would be $781 billion/year (74)."
• "Uncertainty and context-dependence imply that people cannot always be counted on to navigate the complex trade-offs involving privacy in a self-interested fashion.... people are easily influenced in what and how much they disclose. Moreover, what they share can be used to influence their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in many aspects of their lives, as individuals, consumers, and citizens."

Another cause of climate change is developing [land use and land cover change could contribute as much as half of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, Atmos Chem Phys 2014], 517

*The downside of living a longer life, 517 ["Extending the period of ill health of an increasingly aged human population could be devastating, suggesting that reseearchers should focus on optimizing healthspan rather than lifespan.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 10.1073/pnas.1412192112 (2015)], p517

Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata, p536 ["Our results render the concept of PII, on which the applicability of U.S. and European Union (EU) privacy laws depend, inadequate for metadata data sets (18)." Supplemental material includes data to recreate figures. p539