June 30, 2006

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).

June 29, 2006

10 global trends by Accenture

Photo by Unapersona

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.

June 28, 2006

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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June 27, 2006

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

June 26, 2006

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

June 22, 2006

How much does “one extra email” cost you?



Opt-In Advertising – Permission and Time are Expensive Commodities is an article published by Marketing Improvement. Read the full article

According to MARKETING IMPROVEMENT, increasing the mailing frequency by 30%increases the unsubscribe rate by 100%

June 21, 2006

Canada: Practical Tips for Implementing RFID Privacy Guidelines


Ontario ’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, released privacy Guidelines for the growing field of radio frequency identification (RFID).

These Guidelines flow from her earlier work in 2003 when the Commissioner first identified the potential privacy concerns raised by RFID technology. Following a history of ground-breaking work on building privacy into the design of emerging technologies, these Guidelines are a natural progression of this pragmatic approach.

“I have always found it beneficial to assist those working on emerging technologies, and to be proactive whenever possible – to develop effective guidelines and codes before any problems arise,” said Commissioner Cavoukian. “These made-in-Canada Guidelines provide guidance and solutions regarding item-level consumer RFID applications and uses.”

EPCglobal Canada, an industry association that sets standards for electronic product codes, has been collaborating with the IPC in the development of these Guidelines, and will be seeking Board approval by its member companies to signify the association’s endorsement of the Guidelines.

June 20, 2006

Privacy Laws & Business


Privacy Laws & Business (PL&B) , is an english company who provides services to help its private and public sector clients comply with both the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

PL&B, also edits:

PL&B International

PL&B UK

FREE E-news (the latest developments in International and UK privacy law)

June 19, 2006

South Africa: DMA raises concerns about privacy legislation


DMA raises concerns about privacy legislation

Published at MarketingWeb.Co.Za

The Direct Marketing Association of SA is concerned that two draft pieces of legislation will have serious implications for the way the industry deals with the privacy of consumer’s information.The two bills concerned are the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI) from the Department of Justice and the new Consumer Protection Bill (CPB) from the Department of Trade and Industry.

June 15, 2006

CCTV Singapore

Charles Tan, a singaporean lawyer, publishes at TODAY ONLINE When a million eyes are watching

Proliferating CCTV cameras serve security needs, but will privacy rights suffer?

Is Singapore following the example of the United Kingdom, where the average urban Briton is candidly caught, up to 300 times a day, by approximately 4 million closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras?

In March, it was reported that the idea of equipping all 3,550 buses in Singapore with CCTV cameras — similar to those on London buses — was being considered.


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June 14, 2006

System Privacy Shield 1.85

System Privacy Shield is a computer tracks cleaning tool. This tool will protect your privacy by cleaning all tracks on your computer (including Internet and system activities). When you're using Internet Explorer, FireFox, or an other browser to visit a Web site on the Internet, you will leave your tracks on the computer.

June 13, 2006

RFID Solution for Protecting Personal Privacy

AXCESS International Inc announced last week a solution for managing and securing critical computer assets which hold privacy data, based on its ActiveTag RFID solution.

“The loss of personal information is now a far reaching societal issue. This economical and reliable high security RFID solution automatically accounts for and protects computers, data media, and record boxes holding millions of personal privacy records for a total cost of around $1 per month per asset including the minimal infrastructure,” commented Allan Griebenow, president & CEO of AXCESS International Inc

June 12, 2006

Realnightmare.org


Realnightmare.org is a project by ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) dedicated to the Real ID Act.

"The Real ID Act of 2005 would turn our state driver’s licenses into a genuine national identity card and impose numerous new burdens on taxpayers, citizens, immigrants, and state governments – while doing nothing to protect against terrorism. As a result, it is stirring intense opposition from many groups across the political spectrum. This Web site provides information about opposing Real ID."

June 09, 2006

Your Privacy Under Siege


Your Privacy Under Siege, is an article published by Anush Yegyazarian at PC World last thursday.

The government wants Internet firms to store records about you so that it can have them if necessary for an investigation. Should you worry?

June 07, 2006

Gartner Blogs: Government 2020




At Gartner Blogs, I have found this blog that I recommend you:

Government 2020

"Leading-edge government organizations are examining the long-term evolution of society, economy and the public sector, and technology's role in this evolution, in order to start planning for what is ahead. This blog aims to engage interested parties in a discussion about how the public sector will use and be shaped by technology during the next 15 years."

June 05, 2006

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.

June 04, 2006

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.

June 01, 2006

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.

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