Happy new year

I wish you a happy new year.

And remember if you want to have more information or help all the people affected in South Asia Tsunami you can read this blog

And you can find futher information:


Oxfam
Red Cross
Unicef

Cyberspace privacy

Jerry Kang is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Visiting Professor of Georgetown Law Center.

There is available the video RFID Privacy Workshop at MIT Media Lab

Lessig

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies.

His last book is Free Culture and is available for free under a Creative Commons license:

English
French
Spanish

All electronic formats are free, and there is a paper version available at: Penguin

Platform for Privacy Preferences

The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a specification and vocabulary that enables Web sites to communicate their data management practices to Web site visitors in a machine-readable format. P3P enables Web sites to translate their privacy practices into a standardized, machine-readable format (Extensible Markup Language - XML) that can be retrieved automatically and easily interpreted by a user's browser

P3P was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
The W3C has more than 500 member organizations from around the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web.

If you want to implement P3P you can follow this implementation guide and this is a guide to help organizations incorporate the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) into their Web site(s)

EPAL

The IBM Privacy Research Institute is an organization within IBM Research to promote and advance research in privacy and data protection technology. Our goal is to develop technologies for enterprises to conduct e-business in privacy-enabling ways. The institute's research focuses on technologies for commercial applications, particularly for e-business. The institute is managed out of the Zurich Research.

They are working on (EPAL) Enterprise privacy authorization language and is the first enterprise privacy language that provides fine-grained and portable control over IT systems use of personal information according to privacy policies.

For futher information you can download EPAL's powerpoint presentation by Günter Karjoth