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Privacy International's Open Letter to Google
What's going on? In the space of a week Privacy International , the oldest international privacy group which has been campaigning for over 15 years on a variety of privacy related issues , has both accused Google of conducting a smear campaign against...
Independent: Google is watching YOU - Big Brother row over plans for personal database
Today's Independent will make interesting reading for anyone interested in privacy. Google is watching you 'Big Brother' row over plans for personal database By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor Published: 24 May 2007 Google, the world's biggest search engine...
Lesson learned: From MS Passport to CardSpace
Interesting July 2006 paper by Martin Goldack of the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University Bochum Germany. Some years ago, Microsoft has already proposed a technology called .NET Passport to provide more convenient authentication, however...
Europe's plan to track phone and Net use
Google's Peter Fleischer makes some good and sensible commentscomments in this IHT story reported on CNet . The reporter says Germany's Ministry of Justice is proposing legislation that would "prohibit using false information to create an...
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Let's not give up on our privacy
Interesting piece in the Mercury News from Dean Takahashi that highlights Microsoft's Cynthia Dwork 's work work on privacy preserving data analysis. As she says:- "I also believe that those of us alive now have very little privacy. It doesn't...
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts
These famous words, written some 230 years ago by Edmund Burke ("Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol", 1777), came to mind today when I saw this Guardian Online story ... From cradle to grave, your files available to a cast of thousands. The Guardian's...
2006 PET Award Winner: “A Taxonomy of Privacy”
via Caspar ... Leading researchers in computer science, cryptography and law were recognised for their work at the intersection of technology and policy yesterday at the 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies . “We wanted to support a prize that...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Privacy: The Microsoft Perspective
Here Contents 1 Privacy Issues in RFID Technology . 1.1 How Privacy Threats Arise in RFID Use . 2 The Microsoft Perspective on RFID Privacy . 2.1 Unauthorized Access to RFID and Associated Information . 2.2 Authorized Use of Personally Identifiable Information...
RFID Privacy Gap?
Internet News :- ... The drive to place RFID tags on consumer products is relentless, but IT leaders say public policy on how to use and secure the information they'll provide is lagging behind. ... EPCglobal, a not-for-profit industry organization that...
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