Friday, December 28, 2007
IT and the Changing Privacy Landscape: Eight Areas to Watch in '08 - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership: "(1)Information Is Power: Keeping Data Classification up to Date, (2) Less Is More: Minimizing the Use of Personal Information (3) Decode or Not Decode: The Evolving Use of Encryption (4) The Three-Legged Stool: Strict Standards for Vendors and Business Partners (5) On the Road Again: Personal Information and the Telecommuter's Way of Life (6) In Case of Emergency: Having a Plan for the Worst-Case Scenario (7) It's a Small World: Developing Privacy Procedures for Home and Abroad (8) Building a Better Mousetrap: Keeping Pace with Privacy Management Technology"
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cio
Is Privacy Where It's At?: "In 2000, the mobile industry's dream was, 'You're passing a Starbucks, and your mobile phone pings with a coupon for 50 percent off a latte.' In 2008, the reality will be, 'You're lost, but your cell phone knows where you are -- and will get you outta there.'"
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internetnews
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
A question of identity becomes a matter of freedom - CHALLENGE | Liberty & Security: "ARE you who you say you are? Biometric identity cards are designed to prove your claim. But they are only part of the answer. And they are also part of the bigger problem of e-government, as both the Alistair Darling fiasco and numerous other examples of the Government losing important records show."
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libertysecurity
FTC Staff Proposes Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles: "Every Web site where data is collected for behavioral advertising should provide a clear, consumer-friendly, and prominent statement that data is being collected to provide ads targeted to the consumer and give consumers the ability to choose whether or not to have their information collected for such purpose."
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ftc
Spy camera hunter » geekiegadgets.com: "Here is the solution, this portable unit scans the common frequencies where wireless cameras operates."
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geekiegadgets
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics: "The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad."
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washingtonpost
Friday, December 21, 2007
Putting people first » Privacy protection obsolete in a world of ambient technology: "At their annual meeting this fall in Montreal, there was little of the traditional talk among the international privacy people about the nuts and bolts of data protection. Instead, there were urgent and distressed discussions about “uberveillance,” “ambient technology,” “ubiquitous computing,” “ingest ible bugs” and nanotechnology."
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experientia
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Privacy in the Age of User-Generated Content: "And then it all came crumbling down. When I wasn’t studying, rowing, volunteering and networking, I was boozing, smoking, snorting and
womanizing."
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mashable
Monday, December 03, 2007
PC World - Business Center: Facebook Admits Ad Service Tracks Logged-Off Users: "Facebook's controversial Beacon ad system tracks users' off-Facebook activities even if those users are logged off from the social-networking site and have previously declined having their activities on specific external sites broadcast to their Facebook friends, a company spokesman said via e-mail over the weekend."
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pcworld
Sunday, December 02, 2007
US DoD's New Computing Privacy Policy (defense procurement, military acquisition, defence purchasing): "In response, the US Department of Defense has replaced its decade-old banner warning with a new one. The banner notifies users that their systems may be monitored for 'penetration testing, (communications security), monitoring, network defense, quality control, and employee misconduct, law enforcement and counterintelligence investigations,' adding that all security systems in place are there to provide security for the benefit of the government, not to provide personal privacy to employees."
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defenseindustrydaily
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | 'There is no longer any privacy': "'Everything from your national insurance number to your health record to the number of penalty points on your driving licence will be stored there, even information about when you buy a mobile phone.' "
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BBC