Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID, is a new book by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, that they are founders of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) Published at Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Republic of Korea is one of the most fascinanting countries right now, As one of the four East Asian Tigers, South Korea has achieved an impressive record of growth and integration into the high-tech modern global economy, making South Korea the 10th largest economy in the world
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About Privacy, The Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee(PIDMC) is an independent statutory body established on December 3, 2001 on the basis of the "Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc."
As the Internet and IT services are popularized recently, personal information is used as basic marketing data, and thus the commercial value of it is being highlighted. Accordingly, the excessive collection, abuse and misuse of personal information have become social problems
In order to cope with these challenges, PIDMC was established for a quick and convenient settlement at an affordable cost as one of the alternative dispute resolution(ADR) mechanisms in Korea.
And we can see, this major case:
Case where an online game company collected personal information of an 11-year-old minor without consent of legal guardian
The complainant is a parent whose 11-year-old son, an elementary school student, registered as a member to the online game site operated by the respondent, an online game company, and who learned that his son had used the fee-based game services and had been charged approximately KRW180,000 for the games.The complainant claimed that he had never consented to the collection of the personal and payment information by the respondent when his son had joined the website of the respondent, and demanded the secession of his sons membership and refund of the charged service fees from the respondent. PICO recommended immediate membership withdrawal, along with the refund of KRW 180,000.
Photo Source www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation has discovered that many printers add an arrangement of yellow dots to each page printed that can allow the authorities to identify the time and date of printing and serial number of the device.
List of Printers which do or don't print tracking dots
The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known.
"We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.
White & Case LLP is a global law firm that has lawyers in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. White & Case showcases its leadership in privacy and data protection law with an annual survey and symposium, that we talked about it, few time ago, the 5th Annual Global Privacy Symposium.
Now, they release this Report "Security Breach Survey", conducted by Ponemon Institute (dedicated to advancing ethical information and privacy management practices in business and government) to learn how individuals individuals react to data security breach notifications sent by business, non-profit or governmental organizations as required by new laws.
Siemens has released this project Horizons 2020
"Will the future be a golden age or an apocalypse? People have always speculated about life in the future. Siemens has begun to search for answers and, with a communications scenario called Horizons2020, to study what life will be like in the world of tomorrow. The result is a series of distinct and exciting visions of life in the year 2020. These visions challenge the imagination and invite us to reflect and think ahead."
Two scenarios:
Horizon I
Horizon II
Check out this topic "Security and Public health"
Security and health for all Satellite-supported and online warning systems allow for rapid response to security and public health risks. Read vision
Security according to your budget Security is a marketable commodity. The more money you have, the more secure you can be. Read vision
