Category Archives: Privacy
Let’s talk about privacy, in engineering terms
I have come to believe that a systemic conceptual shortfall affects typical technologists’ thinking about...
Classic Facebook stalking horse
Dec 19, 2012 Yesterday Instagram made its first move towards delivering the real value in...
If Facebook were honest
The first and foremost privacy principle in any data protection regime is Collection Limitation. A...
It’s not too late for privacy
Have you heard the news? “Privacy is dead!” The message is urgent. It’s often yelled...
Types of Personal Information
It’s really vital that technologists, software developers, architects and analysts appreciate that privacy law takes...
The fundamental privacy challenges in biometrics
The EPIC privacy tweet chat of October 16 included “the Privacy Perils of Biometric Security”....
Identity is not a thing
We think we’re talking about a thing when we refer to identity provisioning, or “Bring...
Photo data as crude oil
It’s been said that “data is the new oil”. The immense stores of Personal Information...
A penny for your marketable thoughts?
Most people think that Apple’s Siri is the coolest thing they’ve ever seen on a...
What stops Target telling you’re pregnant?
Question: What stops Target from telling that you’re pregnant? Answer: In many parts the world,...
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