09/11/27 Quick links about privacy and technology
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European legislation: the telecoms package. Police and privacy in the UK. It's the data, stupid. Everything else. And now for something completely different.
European legislation: the telecoms package.
European Commission: European Commission welcomes European Parliament approval of sweeping reforms to strengthen competition and consumer rights on Europe's telecoms markets
EUROPA Press release
European commission: eCommunications - legislative proposals
Tech and law: Digital economy bill, EU Telecoms reform - links etc
Police and privacy in the UK.
The Guardian: Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims
Techdirt: UK Police arresting people just to add to DNA database?
HMIC: Adapting to protest
The Register: Police Intelligence may be a thing of the past
It's the data, stupid.
MediaPost: How data is shaping history
David Lacey: Data integrity - the final frontier
EURIM: Unlocking the value of information (PDF)
Everything else.
Wired threat level: Obama wants computer privacy ruling overturned
DarkReading: CSI annual report - financial fraud, malware on the increase
DarkReading: Employees willing to steal data; companies on the alert
Risktical ramblings: Working with external data (part 1 of X)
MediaPost: Lawmakers, inching toward a privacy bill, question 'data-mining reapers'
And now for something completely different.
Concurring opinions: High on CELS
As Donna is sunbathing, the Doctor goes on a day-trip.
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Midnight (2008)
Legislation (EU edition). Privacy standardisation (international edition). Data breaches (UK edition). National DNA database (UK edition). Google Street View and privacy (Swiss edition). The social media director and the anonymous commenter (US edition). Facebook and crime (Venezuelan edition). Tagged.com and privacy (US edition). Everything else. And now for something completely different.
Legislation (EU edition).
Racingsnake: EU to legislate on cookies
Privacy standardisation (international edition).
Tech and Law: Privacy - Madrid resolution text; Madrid declaration
PolicyBeta: Considering the could in sunny Madrid
Irish Times: Personal privacy issues in the global public eye
Data breaches (UK edition).
BBC News: 'Unacceptable' level of data loss
Silicon.com: GBP 500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
BBC News: T-Mobile staff sold personal data
The Guardian: T-Mobile confirms biggest phone customer data breach
ICO: Press release - Mobile phone customers' records are sold illegally (PDF)
DarkReading: T-Mobile - Employee data theft leads to U.K.'s largest data breach
National DNA database (UK edition).
TILT: UK government publishes its response to S. and Marper v. the UK
Google Street View and privacy (Swiss edition).
Ars Technica: Swiss privacy commissioner miffed, taking Google to court
The Register: Swiss roll Street View into court
The social media director and the anonymous commenter (US edition).
Daily RFT: Stltoday.com censor turns tattletale, costs online commenter his job
STLtoday: Follow up - the case of the vulgar comment and the school
Techdirt: Don't post comments on StlToday.com or they might tell your boss
Ars technica: Paper outs "anonymous" commenter, job loss ensues
Facebook and crime (Venezuelan edition).
GlobalPost: Facebook - a tool for cops and robbers
Techdirt: Yes, bad people use Facebook too
Tagged.com and privacy (US edition).
Reuters: NY's Cuomo settles with Tagged.com over emails
Everything else.
Wired threat level: Senate panel - 80 percent of cyber attacks preventable
PolicyBeta: Amended Google Books settlement does little to address privacy risks
DarkReading: Myth-busting - quelling 7 cloud computing fears
Tech and Law: Technology law - legal journals with free tull text articles
Tech and Law: Full text legal journal articles - how to find online
Philip Virgo: From toxic liability to strategic asset - unlocking the value of information
Clay Shirky: A speculative post on the idea of algorithmic authority
And now for something completely different.
Bottom-up: Death by PowerPoint and leaky abstractions
The EU telecoms package. Data breach legislation. Microsoft on privacy. Tools, not rules. Everything else.
The EU telecoms package.
Tech and law: EU telecoms package approved - internet access; privacy, data breach notification, cookies; net neutrality
Ars technica: EU adopts "internet freedom" provision on internet cut-offs
The technology liberation front: Finnishing what the Finns started: EU to adopt a "right" to broadband
PolicyBeta: Human rights and reframing three strikes - access to the internet = access to information
Europa - press releases: ePrivacy Directive close to enactment - improvement on security breach, cookies and enforcement, and more to come
Data breach legislation.
Wired threat level: National data breach laws move through Senate
Ars technica: Data breach notifications one step closer to law... again
The Register: Government consults on possible GBP 500,000 data breach fines
Microsoft on privacy.
Microsoft Privacy & Safety: Peter Cullen on privacy accountability
Microsoft Privacy & Safety: Privacy in the cloud computing era - a Microsoft perspective
Tools, not rules.
The technology liberation front: Privacy solutions part 7 - how anonymizers can empower privacy-sensitive users
The technology liberation front: Privacy solutions part 8 - the best anonymizer available - Tor, the TorButton & TorBrowser
Everything else.
BBC News: UK surveillance plan to go ahead
Techdirt: UK to require service providers monitor and store info on users
DarkReading: Corporate breaches increase chances of consumer ID theft, study says
PolicyBeta: Study - State databases putting children's personal info at risk
MediaPost: FTC urged to clamp down on data collection online
When IT meets politics: Towards realistic regulatory frameworks for identity
When IT meets politics: Who is the biggest threat to your privacy? Governmet, Google or the gossip next door?
PolicyBeta: P3P and the future of PETs
The FBI and wiretaps. A taxonomy of online security and privacy threats. Everything else.
The FBI and wiretaps.
Wall Street & technology: How prosecutors wiretap Wall Street
Schneier on security: The FBI and wiretaps
A taxonomy of online security and privacy threats
Center for Internet Freedom: Privacy solutions - a taxonomy of online security and privacy threats
The technology liberation front: Announcing PFF's taxonomy of online security & privacy threats
Everything else.
Wired threat level: Woman loses job due to error in FBI criminal database
Wired threat level: Man sues over leaky baby monitor
Techdirt: Teens sue school after being disciplined for Myspace photos
Wired threat level: Teens sue high school that punished them for racy MySpace pics
Wired epicenter: How I unmasked @FakeAPStylebook (an only-on-Twitter story)
Three strikes and you're definitely out. Three strikes and you shouldn't be out. FCC and net neutrality. Google and social search. Facebook and privacy. Privacy and information security. Everything else. And now for something completely different.
Three strikes and you're definitely out.
Ars technica: Prepare for disconnection! French "3 strikes' law now legal
Techdirt: EU parliament pressured by France, removes clause that bans kicking people off the internet
Three strikes and you shouldn't be out.
Times online: MI5 comes out against cutting off internet pirates
FCC and net neutrality.
ABC News: Why you should care about net neutrality
Wired epicenter: FCC approves net neutrality rules, now the fight begins
Freedom to tinker: Net neutrality - when is network management "reasonable"?
MediaPost: Controversy continues as FCC votes unanimously to consider net neutrality rules
PolicyBeta: Finally... rules for the road
The technology liberation front: Net neutrality, slippery slopes & high-tech mutually assured destruction
Google and social search.
The Register: Google stalks your social circle
MediaPost: Google's socially awkward introduction
Facebook and privacy.
MediaPost: Facebook privacy settlement moves forward
Privacy and information security.
Viviane Reding: Securing personal data and fighting data breaches (PDF)
Viviane Reding: Securing personal data and fighting data breaches
Tech and law: Data breaches & security - Reding's speech
Everything else.
Wired threat level: Scan of internet uncovers thousands of vulnerable embedded devices
Eff: Takedown hall of shame
Techdirt: EFF launches takedown hall of shame
Tech and law: Measuring identity theft - ANSI's IDSP report published
Risktical ramblings: Risk / threat vs. risk issue
And now for something completely different.
Wired threat level: Schwarzenegger flips off lawmakers in hidden message
Catching up on privacy and security.
Privacy.
NYT: When 2+2 equals a privacy question
Wired threat level: Medical records - stored in the cloud, sold on the open market
Security.
DatalossDB: Has "data loss" jumped the shark?
Peter Hoonakker, Nis Bornoe, Pascale Carayon: Password authentication from a human factors perspective - results of a survey among end-users (PDF)
Out-law: Credit card firms order change to wireless security in shops
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