XL: Cómo le controlan las nuevas tecnologías

La semana pasada la revista española dominical "XL Semanal" publicaba un magnífico reportaje sobre la privacidad en España "Cómo le controlan las nuevas tecnologías: ¿Alguien le está espiando?".

No es habitual que una revista generalista trate temas de privacidad, haciendo incapié en el uso de las nuevas tecnologías (RFID, nuevo pasaporte, etc.).

En el artículo entrevista a Antoni Farriols i Solá, presidente Comisión de Libertades e Informática (CLI).

10 global trends by Accenture

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Article published at Outlook by Accenture Issue: 2006, Number 2, Outlook Journal


High-Performance Business: Making the Trend Your Friend

Predicting the future is the easy part. What really matters is the ability to harness waves of change and use them to achieve high performance. Here are 10 crucial global trends and the actions organizations need to take to create their own future.

Ixquick: First search engine to stop recording privacy details

Ixquick's Press Release

HAARLEM, The Netherlands, June 27, 2006

As personal privacy concerns create growing alarm about the freedom of the Internet, the Ixquick metasearch engine has taken a pioneering step: starting today, Ixquick will permanently delete all personal search details gleaned from its users from the log files.

"This new feature of our search engine ensures both optimal privacy protection and maximum search performance for our customers, since they will be able to search using the 12 best search engines without their personal data being recorded," says Ixquick spokesman Alex van Eesteren.

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Free Wi-Fi raises privacy concerns

Free Wi-Fi raises privacy concerns

By Julia Scott, STAFF WRITER

As a much-anticipated, countywide wireless Internet venture moves forward, some activists are concerned that the promise of free or low-cost wireless access for anyone who wants it may have some strings attached....

Meanwhile, three Bay Area groups — the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center — have raised questions about whether the project's organizers will take users' privacy and free-speech rights into account when they choose a group of bidders to represent the region.

Full article at: Inside Bay Area

Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum

I have found at CDT (Center for Democracy & Technology) this headline:


High-Profile Companies Announce Support for Privacy Law - A group of high-profile companies today announced that they would support in principle the creation of a national consumer privacy law that governs how companies treat the information they collect from consumers.


The Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum was organized in the winter of 2006 to support a process to consider comprehensive consumer privacy legislation in the United States. The Forum began with a Steering Committee of companies eBay, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft, the consumer group Center for Democracy and Technology, and Professor Peter Swire of the Ohio State University.

Consumer Privacy Legislative Forum Statement