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.