(Source: Publicintelligence.net)
Tarun Wadhwa, Contributor (http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/08/30/dear-republicans-beware-big-brother-is-watching-you/)
In Tampa, Florida, just outside of the building where the Republican National Convention is taking place, vigilant observers are perched high above, working day and night to spo [...]
The Next Privacy Battle: Cameras That...
(Source: Publicintelligence.net)
Tarun Wadhwa, Contributor (http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/08/30/dear-republicans-beware-big-brother-is-watching-you/)
In Tampa, Florida, just outside of the building where the Republican National Convention is taking place, vigilant observers are perched high above, working day and night to spo [...]
EU regulators side with Microsoft in ...
European regulators have urged an Internet standards-setting body to let Microsoft set users’ preferences for the “Do Not Track” privacy feature in the upcoming Internet Explorer 10 (IE10).
Clearly, this is an incredible point of public-privacy – policy. It seems obvious that people should have control of being iden [...]
Facebook Futurism- The Future of Your...
Minority Report Style Advertising, the type of advertising in which a shop senses your face and gives you an advertisement based on facial recognition.
This is the future of a 100 billion Facebook IPO. Now we have a big powerful company that needs to exponentially please investors and is irrevocably moving down the path of capturing the face [...]
Viviane Redding On The New EU Rules
Informative Interview with Viviane Redding, covering briefly the contentious issues of the right to be forgotten and data breach.
She explains that Identity Trust is a priority as people are finding out weeks later, by chance, that they have been robbed and that this is unacceptable.
Also, People’ own their own information, if they want [...]
UK Draft Communications Bill
Privacy International has posted the draft here. They have also posted on twitter that this draft confirms their worst fears.!!
This is a topic to watch over the next few months as a great deal of information on the future of privacy in the UK will come out of the discussions this Draft Bill will bring to light.
Opinion On Cookies by Article 29
Finally some definitive policy on cookie tracking that can be used to as
set European standards. Lots of confusion in recent weeks and this goes a long way to fixing up the confusion.
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has released an Opinion on Cookie Consent Exemption (adopted 7 June 2012)
(thanks to W3C Pubic Privacy List)
Link [...]
Bar-PhotoID-Security Is Profiteering ...
A CBC news in article “Market bars rolling out photo security system” (in Ottawa Canada) illustrates a trial of photo identity systems in which people’s identity documents are being recorded upon entry to venues that serve alcohol.
This system like many new systems shows an alarming trend in which peoples real identity is be [...]
Support Standard Information Sharing ...
A great new effort from Information Sharing Work Group (ISWG) called A Standard Information Sharing Label - has been launched as a kickstarter project. A project to create a very much needed standard, is well worth the investment of 20 dollars.
This work, due in most part to the Joe Andrieu, Iain Henderson, and Judi Clark, is about producing [...]
UK – All phone & email rec...
(Note: This article below illustrates the data retention and government access plans for ISP’s.To understand why this so important, take a look at this short video. Visually illustrates what this data retention by ISP’s means to each individual.) (http://vimeo.com/34750078)
Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan
ht [...]
Don’t Put Your Trust in “...
From: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/dont-put-your-trust-trusted-identities
Posted by Jay Stanley, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 6:08pm
Obama administration officials spoke today about the “National Strategies for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.” The NSTIC (“N-Stick”) proposal, wh [...]