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Girma Nigusse

Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols

Saturday, March 31, 2012


This document offers guidance for developing privacy considerations for IETF documents and aims to make protocol designers aware of privacy-related design choices. [Read more from IETF]

Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws

Thursday, January 12, 2012

"Executives from Microsoft and Google on Thursday gave a glimpse into the size of their privacy organizations, which are required for the companies to try to avoid running foul of complicated U.S. privacy regulations and prepare for changes coming to privacy laws around the globe. [Read more from computer world]"

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European distrust of US data security creates market for local cloud service

"A recent survey indicated that 70 percent of Europeans have concerns about their online data and how well companies secure it and now two Swedish companies, Severalnines and City Network, have begun promoting their newly merged service as "a safe haven from the reaches of the U.S. Patriot Act." Under the U.S. Patriot Act, data from European users of U.S.-based cloud services can secretly be seized by U.S. law enforcement agencies. "We believe that a service owned and operated locally in the E.U., and fully compliant with E.U. data protection laws, will be very attractive for European companies. U.S. companies with European operations will also benefit from the lower latency of a locally hosted solution," said City Network chairman Johan Christenson. [Read more from computerworld]"

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Revealed: Mass spying by governments, says WikiLeaks

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has popped up in London to reveal shady, industrial-scale spying by governments on their citizens. Intelligence contractors are targeting smartphones and web-based email to invade our privacy on a mass scale, the whistle-blowing organization warns. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers search for the "reset to factory settings" button. [Read more from computerworld]"

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Phone 'Rootkit' Maker Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions Of Cases

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

"“If CarrierIQ has gotten the handset manufactures to install secret software that records keystrokes intended for text messaging and the Internet and are sending some of that information back somewhere, this is very likely a federal wiretap.” he says. Read more from [Forbes]"

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BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

Friday, December 02, 2011

"An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. Read more from [The Register]."

The Surveillance Catalog

"The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents include hacking tools that enable governments to break into people’s computers and cellphones, and "massive intercept" gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country.

The documents fall into five general categories: hacking, intercept, data analysis, web scraping and anonymity. Below, explore highlights related to each type of surveillance, and search among selected documents. Read more from [The Wall Street Journal]. 

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EU data protection reform would put pressure on foreign companies

Thursday, December 01, 2011

"The European Commission is preparing a major reform of the E.U. Data Protection Directive, which will focus on how foreign companies handle European consumer data. Read more from [computerworld].

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Healthcare 'most breached industry in 2011'

"Doing some analysis of breaches this year, the healthcare industry has experienced 170 breaches out of the total 480 for 2011. This is over double of any other industry that is listed within the privacyrights.org database. One thing this shows me is that the traditionally notorious education field has gotten significantly better. There were only 52 reported public data breaches versus the 73 in 2010 and alarming 101 breaches in 2006 in the education field. Below is a bit of trending analysis on a per instance breach each year for the healthcare industry. Read more from [csoonline]"

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Electronic Privacy Act Turns 25; No Reason to Celebrate

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

"Yet, the ECPA -- which sets the rules on how and when law enforcement agencies can access your electronic information -- has managed to be remarkably resistant to change since it became law 25 years ago on October 21. That's created some bizarre anomalies in the law."

Read more: pcworld

Facebook to give German state privacy exemption

"Thilo Weichert, who leads the state’s data protection efforts, said in August that the site’s “like” button violated German privacy laws because it allowed Facebook to track members’ interests without their consent and sent the personal data to the United States."

Read more: TheLocal

Hundreds of websites share usernames sans permission

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"Home Depot, The Wall Street Journal, Photobucket, and hundreds of other websites share visitor's names, usernames, or other personal information with advertisers or other third parties, often without disclosing the practice in privacy policies, academic researchers said.

Sixty-one percent of websites tested by researchers from Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society leaked the personal information, sometimes to dozens of third-party partners."

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