Seventh Annual Institute on Privacy Law

The Seventh Annual Institute on Privacy Law: Evolving Laws and Practices in a Security - Driven World is taking place since this Monday in San Francisco.

Privacy in China

An article at China Daily publishs (90% worry privacy divulged: Survey) shows that 91.8 percent of respondents are worried their private information can too easily be divulged and misused, and 74.0 percent said legislation to protect privacy should be enhanced.

The survey, jointly launched by a national newspaper China Youth Daily and one of the country's influential websites, www.sina.com in May, had 4,003 respondents.


Links:

Privacy in the Chinese Constitution (privacyinternational 2003 Survey)

Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection Workshop

Last Saturday the Harvard University's Center for Research on Computation and Society held a day-long workshop on Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection.


Spring 2006 Workshop Agenda


This is one of several seminars and workshops on privacy & security for the 2005-06 academic year.

UK's top companies fail privacy test

Two-thirds of FTSE 100 Companies Fail Data Protection and Privacy Standars said a survey among UK's leading organizations by Marketing Improvement, published at The Privacy Advisor.

Richard Doyle and the Biometrica Project

Richard Doyle is a professor of Rhetoric and Science, Medicine, Technology & Cultures in the Department of English at Penn State University.

Biotelemetrica is a project about privacy and biotelemetrics.

"Biotelemetrics" names a diverse set of practices, technologies and disciplines oriented toward the non-invasive determination of human identity at a distance.

The moral is that biometrics work well only if the verifier can verify two things: one, that the biometric came from the person at the time of verification, and two, that the biometric matches the master biometric on file.
If the system can't do that, it can't work. Biometrics are unique identifiers, but they are not secrets. You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch, and your iris patterns can be observed anywhere you look. (Schneier, 1999, "Biotelemetrics: Uses and Abuses")

Podcast:

Just Say Yes to The Noosphere - a talk at Stanford University Law School, May 26, 2006 at Human Enhancement Technologiesand Human Rights.