Privacy Symposium: Securing Privacy in the Internet Age

Last march was The Privacy Symposium at Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.

We can hear it at Conference Audio

And blogs of the Center for Internet and Society.

As you know Lawrence Lessig is the Founder and Director of the Center for Internet and Society

European Constitution and Protection of Personal Data

These days everybody talks about the European Constitution and referendum. You can read the Constitution in 21 european languages at Europa's web. Every country has developped a web about it, UK, France, Belgium or Spain.

And two articles about Data Protection:
ART I-51 The Constitution’s fundamental provisions
and ART II-68 Charter of Fundamental Rights

ARTICLE I-51
Protection of personal data
1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. European laws or framework laws shall lay down the rules relating to the protection of
individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by Union institutions, bodies, offices and
agencies, and by the Member States when carrying out activities which fall within the scope of
Union law, and the rules relating to the free movement of such data. Compliance with these rules
shall be subject to the control of independent authorities

ARTICLE II-68
Protection of personal data
1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.
2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of
the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of
access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.
3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.

MIT's OpenCourseWare

I love this web MIT's OpenCourseWare I'm sure that they are going to change the world with this project.

This week I found this course 15.970 Digital Anthropology, Spring 2003 and I think you have to take a look:

Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media arts seminar surveying the blossoming arena of digital-artifact enabled experimental sociology/anthropology. We will emphasize both (a) Technology Testbeds – systematically deploying research lab prototypes and corporate pre-production products in a sample human organizational population and carefully observing the social consequences, and (b) Sociometrics – using digital artifacts to better observe and measure the complex social reality of interesting human systems.


It's hard to explain but it's a incredible project. Thank you.

SPOTME

Spotme device is a small battery-powered handheld computer running embedded Linux by Shockfish a swiss company base in Lausanne, who helps you to meet people in meetings. Spotme has a radar, database people that let you know instantly the names, titles of the people around you. So you can browse the delegate list and find Mr. Smith. And you can, also, change business cards in a simple point-and-shoot action.
That works with a base station that broadcasts database updates to all Spotme devices and a server. For futher information you can browse Soptme’s Presskit.

Le spam en Belgique

La Commission de la Protección de la Vie Privée de la Belgique a publie un raport su la situation du Spam en la Belgique.

La Commission a analysé les 50 000 courriers qui lui sont parvenus en deux mois et demi, et les a classés selon leur origine et leur sujet.

Avec 86% de courriers en langue anglaise sur le total des courriers reçus, les Etats-Unis (et dans une moindre mesure le Canada) constituent la première zone géographique d’origine des spams.

Les courriers identifiés comme expédiés depuis la Belgique constituent seulement 2,8% du total.