Category Archives: Privacy
The last thing privacy needs is new laws
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has given a speech in London, re-affirming the...
The Privacy Shield – another blunt weapon
For many years, American businesses have enjoyed a bit of special treatment under European data...
Mar
Finding friends gets a little harder
The highest court in Germany has ruled that Facebook’s “Find Friends” function is unlawful there....
My opening remarks on privacy at Constellation Connected Enterprise 2015
A big part of my research agenda in the Digital Safety theme at Constellation is...
Please. There is no perfect privacy.
A new effort dubbed Project Enigma “guarantees” us privacy, by way of a certain technology....
Oct
Spare us the outrage over Safe Harbor changes
For 35 years now, a body of data protection jurisprudence has been built on top...
An identity glut on the Internet of Things
A superconducting mag lev train. Picture credit: Wikimedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike...
Sep
Biometrics Privacy Trust Mark Development – Stage 2
The Biometrics Institute has received Australian government assistance to fund the next stage of the...
Sep
A letter on Free Speech and the Right to be Forgotten
An unpublished letter to New Yorker magazine, August 2015. Kelefa Sanneh (“The Hell You Say”,...
BlackBerry Security Summit 2015
On July 23, BlackBerry hosted its second annual Security Summit, once again in New York...