Category Archives: Privacy
The Snapchat data breach
Yesterday it was reported by The Verge that anonymous hackers have accessed Snapchat’s user database...
Facebook’s challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle
Dec 25, 2013 Facebook’s challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle An extract from our chapter...
Are we ready to properly debate surveillance and privacy?
The cover of Newsweek magazine on 27 July 1970 featured an innocent couple being menaced...
Measuring anonymity
As we head towards 2014, de-identification of personal data sets is going to be a...
Is it Personal Information or not ? Embrace the uncertainty.
The Australian parliament recently revised our definition of Personal Information. We have lowered the bar...
Sep
What’s really happening to privacy?
This article was first published as Wilson, S. (2013). What happened to privacy?”. Issues, 104,...
Designing Privacy by Design
I am speaking at next week’s AusCERT security conference, on how to make privacy real...
Big Data? Big Privacy!
I was invited to give a speech to launch Australian Privacy Awareness Week #2013PAW on...
The beginning of privacy!
The headlines proclaim that the newfound ability to re-identify anonymous DNA donors means The End...
Letter to Science: Re-identification of DNA may need ethics approval
Introduction I had a letter published in Science magazine about the recently publicised re-identification of...