Paris: "Biggest Invasion of Privacy EVER"

Paris: "Biggest Invasion of Privacy EVER"

from: mtv.news

Paris Hilton is said to be disgusted by the on-going trading of website, www.parisexposed.com.

We reported last week how loads of Paris's personal belongings ended up on the site after a missed payment on a storage locker of hers led to her stuff being put up for public auction.

Now the sometime singer/actress/model has filed a lawsuit damning the creators of the site and the couple who purchased her belongings in the first place.

"I was appalled to learn that people are exploiting mine and my sister's private and personal belongings for commercial gain," she said.

Smart Card Alliance Releases Security, Privacy Guidelines

Article published at PCMAG.COM

The Smart Card Alliance, which represents a plethora of companies and governmental entities with a vested interest in the successful marriage of RFID and technology, has come out with best practice suggestions for companies implementing radio frequency technology in identity management systems.

The goal of the best practice guidelines issued by the Alliance Identity Council—three around security; seven around privacy—is to address concerns, voiced mainly by advocates, about potential citizen protection and rights violations with the use of RFID technology in identification documents.

The questions from security and privacy advocates come at a time of tremendous activity around identification cards and payment systems that utilize RFID technology.

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Workshop on Privacy & Data Protection Issues

The European Commission will organise a 13 February workshop on privacy and data protection issues with regards to in-vehicle telematics and cooperative systems.

The workshop’s objective is to discuss how to deal with privacy issues in the design of telematics services and applications.

The agenda will discuss experiences of EC-funded projects in this area and present various case studies. Experts from the industry (vehicle manufacturers, equipment suppliers, telecommunications), security in electronic communications, as well as representatives from data protection authorities will be invited in order to elaborate guidelines for tackling these issues.

Read the agenda: .pdf (59 KB)

Stanford Computer Science

The Stanford University founded in 1965, the Department of Computer Science is a center for research and education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Strong research groups exist in areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, foundations of computer science, scientific computing, and systems.

SECURITY & PRIVACY PROJECTS

R E S E A R C H G R O U P S

Theory Group

Applied Crypto Group

Security Laboratory
Bio-X

Formal Verification Group

CIS Circuits & Design

InfoLab

Information Privacy

SUIF Compiler Group

Secure Computer Systems

SimOS

Large-scale Interoperation & Composition

Medical Information Science

P R O J E C T S

ACTIVE

APPeers: Cooperative Networked Control of Dynamical Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Systems

Collective: A Computing Utility Architecture

Electronic Voting

Identity Based Encryption

PORTIA: Managing sensitive information in a wired world

Privacy and Databases

PwdHash - Web Password Hashing

Smart Memories

SpoofGuard: Preventing online identity theft and phishing

SPYCE: Software Quality and Infrastructure Protection for Diffuse Computing

TRUST: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology

COMPLETE

Agile Management of Dynamic Collaboration

Pleiades: Assurance For Mobile Code

INACTIVE

Authenticating Streamed Data

Electronic Wallets Project: wallets for desktops and handheld devices

Generating RSA keys on the PalmPilot With the Help of an Untrusted Server

Identity Based Encryption Email system

ITTC Project: Intrusion tolerance via threshold cryptography

Security of cryptographic primitives and protocols

SSL Sniffer: a great way to see the SSL protocol in action

SSL WebStones

European Privacy Institute

Source: Cordis News

An initiative has been launched to lobby for a permanent European institute to foster a synthesis between technology and privacy.

The European Privacy Institute Initiative already involves nearly 40 experts - mainly academics but also business associates and an official from the European Commission. Driving the initiative is a desire to examine how values like privacy and ethics can be integrated into future product designs and technologies.

The group points out that a number of global companies, such as IBM, Microsoft and KPMG are conducting research into privacy issues. In Europe, a number of EU-funded projects are doing the same. These include PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe), FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society), and BITE (Biometric Identification Technology Ethics). Universities around Europe are also carrying out their own research projects.

An Executive Committee has been created to present the idea to the EU institutions. The three Committee members represent a university, the director of a research consortium and the CEO of the European Biometric Forum. A Scientific Advisory Committee has been established to assist the Executive Committee.

Read the full article at Cordis