Ubicomp 2006

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Ubicomp 2006, the Eighth International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing, will be held in Orange County, California, September 17-21, 2006, hosted by the University of California, Irvine. Ubicomp is the premier international forum for research in ubiquitous computing, bringing together designers, computer scientists, social scientists, and artists, to discuss recent developments and future advance.


Satoru Hashimoto and Yasuto Nakanishi from Keio University will present the demo, SpaceTracer: Sharing Space by Combining Images from Network Cameras, a system that enables to share the contexts from distant places by combining images for 30 minutes fetched from network cameras into an alpha-blended image.

Also several Videos will be present at UbiComp conference series.

The program privacy issues

Tuesday, 2:00pm: Capture and Privacy

Scribe4Me:
Evaluating a Mobile Sound Transcription Tool for the Deaf Tara Matthews (University of California, Berkeley, US); Scott Carter (University of California, Berkeley, US); Carol Pai (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Janette Fong (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Jennifer Mankoff (Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, US)

SenseCam:
a Retrospective Memory AidSteve Hodges (Microsoft Research, UK); Lyndsay Williams (Microsoft Research, UK); Emma Berry (Microsoft Research, UK); Shahram Izadi (Microsoft Research, UK); James Srinivasan (Microsoft Research, UK); Alex Butler (Microsoft Research, UK); Gavin Smyth (Microsoft Research, UK), Narinder Kapur (Addenbrookes Hospital, UK); Ken Wood (Microsoft Research, UK)

Development of a A Privacy Addendum for Open Source Licenses:
Value Sensitive Design in IndustryBatya Friedman (University of Washington, US); Ian Smith (Intel Research Seattle, US); Peter Kahn, Jr. (University of Washington, US); Sunny Consolvo (Intel Research Seattle, US); Jaina Selawski (Intel Corp, US)


LINKS

Ubicom 2007 (Call for proposals)

Ubicomp 2005: Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Tokyo, Japan

Ubicomp 2004: Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, England

UbiComp 2003: Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle, Washington, USA

UbiComp 2002: Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Göteberg, Sweden

UbiComp 2001: Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

HUC2k: Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, Bristol, United Kingdom

HUC 99: First International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, Karlsruhe, German

EU row looms over US call to ditch data privacy rights

According to TheParliament.com, Europe’s capitals and EU institutions are deeply divided over calls to drop privacy rights for citizens amid an anti-terror air security crackdown.

EU members states are divided on data protection issues and the European parliament is angry that MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) are not being consulted on handovers of information to US security agencies.

Read full article at TheParliament.com

The Kings' Tale

According to Seattle Post Intelligencer, Amazon.com is developing a system to gather and keep massive amounts of intimate information about its millions of shoppers, including their religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and income. Its ability to do so emerged in a detailed patent application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Patent application 20060178946).

Andrew Orlowski publishes at The Register that US Privacy groups renewed last week their calls for search engines and commercial retailers to wipe their databases clean.

Ed Gottsman (Accenture Associate Partner) comments at Of SWFWAPs and Data Privacy “It would have to be very careful when deciding how it uses the data it possesses”

If customer is king, let your customers tell you what they want or you lose them forever.

Two new articles at Technology Review

There are two news and interesting articles at Technology Review.

Remote-Controlled Humans

Electrically stimulating the vestibular nerve can influence human movement -- and may create better virtual-reality devices and prosthetics.
By Emily Singer

Googling Your TV

Prototype software from Google Research could listen to your TV and send back useful information -- and ads of course.
By Wade Roush

Net Watchdog: The Elusive Search for Privacy

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This is an extract of PCWorld´s article "Net Watchdog: The Elusive Search for Privacy" by Tom Spring.

AOL's accidental release of the search queries of 650,000 subscribers underscores the growing stakes when it comes to digital privacy. AOL's disastrous mistake is exactly the reason you should be asking yourself whether privacy even can exist in this digital age.

Read more at PCWorld.

Datospersonales.org

La web datospersonales.org, es la revista de la Agencia de Protección de Datos de la Comunidad de Madrid. Esta revista se publica mensualmente desde marzo del 2003, y el último número publicado de julio de este año, que es el número 22. Se trata de una revista de gran calidad y con artículos de referencias mundiales en protección de datos y privacidad.

En España existen varias Agencias de Protección de Datos, a nivel nacional está la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, una web que cada día es más completa y dónde podeís encontrar información sobre la legislación vigente en España.

Además de esta Agencia, existen en la actualidad tres Agencias más:

• Agencia Catalana de Protección de Datos
• Agencia de Protección de Datos de la Comunidad de Madrid
• Agencia Vasca de Protección de Datos

The Soundtrack of this Summer

Photo by unapersona

Now is available these Conferences Podcasts:

IdentityMashUp "idmashup06"

The Identity Mashup Conference was a three-day event hold at Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA and hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.


AUDIO (at AudioBerkman)

Included

ID Mashup 2006 Panel III: Privacy and Civil Liberties
ID Mashup 2006 Panel IV: Wild and Walled Gardens: Trust, Reputatin and Community Building



WIKIMANIA 2006

Wikimania 2006, the second annual international Wikimedia conference, was held August 4–6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School campus.

Video, audio, presentation slides

Included

Lawrence Lessig - The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement. Lessig Website

Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks. Who has just released the book The Weatlh of Networks (creative commons license)

MEMS, nanotechnology and microsystems

Everyday becomes everything more complex, as professors Kang and Cuf said “Now, add to these miniature computing-communication devices (Active RFID tags) the functionality provided by recent advances in microelectricalmechanical systems (MEMS). Computing elements can now have sensors to measure the physical world and actuators that initiate physical response.” Jerry Kang and Dana Cuff. “Pervasive Computing: Embedding the Public Sphere”

But what is MEMS?

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) is the technology of the very small, and merges at the nanoscale into "Nanoelectromechanical Systems". Source Wilipedia

I was reading another incredible paper, that I recommend you, Living in a World of Smart Everyday Objects – Social, Economic and Ethical Implications by Jürgen Bohn, Vlad Coroama, Marc Langherinrich, Friedemann Mattern and Michael Rohs, from of Department of Computer Science of Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich and they said “ A further step towards the now economy is the constant monitoring of critical product parameters (e.g.,of temperature-sensitive goods such as chemicals or groceries) by tiny wireless sensors. Equipped withcommunications capabilities, such “introspective” goods are not only able to monitor themselves, but can also communicate relevant parameters to the outside world” (Fleisch 2002). See note

So, to learn more about privacy, social implications and nanotechnology we can visit the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, the center explores issues like privacy and security, in fact they have this program: TRC Program 1: Freedom, Privacy and Security, TRC 1 Leaders: George Poste and Torin Monahan

“Goal: To develop theory and explore cases of surveillance and sensing nanotechnologies, including issues of effectiveness, potential ubiquity and embeddedness, and impacts on practices of surveillance and on the individuals and communities subject to surveillance.”

And finally at CNS website I have found this link to RAND Coporation, and its latest publication: The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary.

By the way RAND has a special research area on Privacy, Security, and Electronic Surveillance.


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Note: (Fleisch E. 2002. Von der Vernetzung von Unternehmen zur Vernutzung von Dingen. In: Schögel M, Tomczak T, Belz C (eds). 2002. Roadm@p to E-Business – Wie Unternehmen das Internet erfolgreichnutzen. Thexis, St. Gallen, pp 124–135

Security Problem in Electronic Passports

A demonstration late Friday by German computer security expert Lukas Grunwald showed how personal information stored on the e-passports could be copied and transferred to another. device.

Read more:

Hackers Clone E-Passports (Wired)

Researcher Warns of Security Problem in Electronic Passports (Technology Review)

http://www.defcon.org

http://www.security.org

NETFUTURE

NetFuture is an electronic newsletter with postings every two-to-four weeks from 1995 to 2005. NetFuture is a non-profit publication of The Nature Institute.

And this is a list of articles about privacy & security:

No Place to Hide In article: "Does the Future Compute?" Issue: NF #142, February 25, 2003

Complexity, Trust and Terror Author: Langdon Winner Issue: NF #137, October 22, 2002

High Noon at the DB Corral Issue: NF #132, May 21, 2002

Technology and Human Responsibility Issue: NF #115, December 21, 2000

Don't Be Hysterical about Privacy Author: Kevin Kelly Issue: NF #78, October 15, 1998

Privacy and Prejudice Issue: NF #77, October 6, 1998

Cryptography Is Fuel on the Fire, Not a Solution Author: Don Davis Issue: NF #67, March 12, 1998

Breaking-in Is Not Hard to Do Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998

Trust Me Issue: NF #66, February 24, 1998

If Big Brother Has Been Dismembered, Are We Safe? Issue: NF #61, December 1 1997

Big Brother in the Bathroom? Issue: NF #55, September 9, 1997

The New Money: Anonymous But Countable Issue: NF #42, March 6, 1997

Dorothy Denning on Cryptography Export Controls Issue: NF #39, January 29, 1997

Insecure Little Old Ladies Issue: NF #38, January 16, 1997

Arguing about privacy Author: Phil Agre Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996

Response to Agre Issue: NF #32, November 10, 1996

Privacy in an age of data (part 3) Issue: NF #30, October 24, 1996

Privacy in an age of data (part 2) Issue: NF #29, October 17, 1996

Privacy in an age of data Issue: NF #28, September 25, 1996

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Australian Minister for Human Services, the Hon Joe Hockey MP, has established the Access Card Consumer and Privacy Task Force to address consumer and privacy issues related to development of the health and social services access card.

The primary focus of the Task Force is to address the tension between meeting consumer demand for increased Access card functionality and any concerns consumers may have about data protection and privacy issues.

According Australian IT, the Access Card Consumer and Privacy Taskforce has been deluged with more than 70 "high quality" submissions on the federal Government's proposed health and welfare services card.

"In particular, I would like to mention concerns raised by the Australian Medical Association into the use of the card for emergency information," Joe Hockey said. "We will continue to work with the AMA as it is a feature on which we have had very popular feedback."

Read more at Australian IT

Cybertrust: the tension between privacy and security in an e-society

Since April 2003, the Oxford Internet Institute, a department within the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford, develops Cybertrust: the tension between privacy and security in an e-society:

Perceptions of trust in online activities are significant factors influencing the kinds and extents of Internet use, for example in e-commerce and e-government interactions, and have been a key cross-cutting theme of several pieces of research over the past five years.

Outcomes

Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J., Dutton, W. and Peltu, M. (2003) Economics of Trust in the Information Economy: Issues of Identity, Privacy and Security. Research Report No. 1 (Oxford Internet Institute).
Dutton, W., Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J. and Peltu, M. (2005) The cyber trust tension in e-government: Balancing identity, privacy, security. Information Polity (Special issue: Public Administration in the Information Society: Essays in Risk and Trust) 10:13-23.

The nascent pro-privacy movement in Japan

This is an extract from "Peace and Privacy in the Pacific" an article by Jennifer Granick at Wired News.

In 2004, three men distributing leaflets opposing the Iraq war near a Japanese military base were arrested, interrogated, held for 75 days and then convicted and fined for trespassing.

Many people believe that the prosecution of these men, who came to be known as the Tachikawa Three, was heavy-handed and discriminatory. The Tachikawa Three have become a rallying point for two movements: Japanese pacifists opposing constitutional changes that would free the nation to join military actions, and a nascent pro-privacy movement that's gaining surprising ground in a country with no native word for "privacy."

Read full article at wired.com

AIM: RFID Privacy And Security Summit

(Source RFID Solutions on line)

AIM Global, the industry trade association recognized as the worldwide authority on automatic identification and mobility today announced plans for their third annual RFID Executive Summit and Legislative Fly-In.

The event will be held from 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, 7 September 2006 at the Holiday Inn on the Hill in Washington, DC, USA. The invitation-only meeting will bring thought leaders from RFID and Automatic Identification together in a unique networking and educational environment.