Correspondence in Nature magazine
I had a letter to the editor published in “Nature” on big data and privacy.
Read moreRationing Identity on the Internet of Things
I made this presentation to the 2015 Cloud Identity Summit, on the risks to privacy of ‘over identifying’ the data that increasingly gushes from all our smart devices.
Read morePrivacy Master Class at AusCERT 2015
An all day privacy tutorial for infosec professionals presented at AusCERT 2015.
Read more“The collision between Big Data and privacy law”
A peer reviewed paper for the Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 2014.
Read more“Seeing privacy through the engineer’s eyes”
An invited paper submitted to Privacy Policy Reporter, 2015 (in press).
Read more“Technology myths shattered: Privacy in the digital age”
An invited presentation to a Pacific meeting of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) 7 May 2014.
Read moreA novel application of PKI smartcards to anonymise Health Identifiers
A paper presented to the academic stream of the AusCERT 2005 conference about using anonymous digital certificates to securely convey health identifiers.
Read moreAusCERT 2013: Designing Privacy by Design
I presented my latest privacy engineering tools to the AusCERT 2013 information security conference. Here’s the abstract and conference handouts.
Read moreHow can technologists relate to privacy?
I gave a speech in 2013 at Swinburne University, as part of a panel “Privacy Tradeoffs in the Information Age”.
Read more“Designing Privacy By Design”
A recent column written for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) on how to make Privacy by Design real.
Read moreLetter to Science: Re-identification of DNA may need ethics approval
A letter to the editor of Science magazine, responding to a report that bioinformaticians have combined public genealogy data with confidential donated genomic data to re-identify donors.
Read moreFacebook privacy paper printed in IEEE Technology & Society
Stephen’s analysis of Facebook’s privacy compliance problems — jointly developed with Salinger’s Anna Johnston — has been published in the IEEE “Technology and Society” magazine. Pre-print copy attached.
Read moreSmart Meters Privacy Impact Assessment
Lockstep performed a major Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on smart electricity metering for the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. We believe this is one of the few smart meter PIAs that have been published to date.
Read moreLetter to the Editor: Social media exploitation is gravest risk
Stephen had a long letter to the editor published in the Sydney Morning Herald, on the grave privacy risks posed by social media.
Read moreTrouble ahead when doctors use Facebook
A letter to the editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, highlighting how medicos’ use of social media — cloud mail and OSN — can intersect with patients’ relationships with their doctors being revealed.
Read morePrivacy op-ed in Sydney Morning Herald
Stephen had an opinion piece published by the broadsheet Sydney Morning Herald on 17 Feb 2010.
Read more“More trouble with Facebook”
An article written with Salinger Privacy’s Anna Johnston for the Privacy Law Bulletin.
Read morePublic yet still “private”
A column for Online Banking Review that dispels the myth that information in the public domain is not subject to the Privacy Act. That is, there’s a paradox: information can be public and yet private at the same time.
Read moreGoogle’s wifi misadventure, and the gulf between IT and Privacy
An article for the iappANZ, examining what Google’s carelessness with data collection tells us about technologists’ appreciation of privacy.
Read moreHealth Identifiers and Patient Privacy
An article for the iappANZ, exposing the “grim myth” that clinical efficacy and privacy are at odds.
Read moreAnonymity & Pseudonymity in eResearch
A peer reviewed poster paper presented at a major annual e-research conference in 2009.
Read more“Privacy Engineering”
We coined the term “privacy engineering” in order to raise consciousness that more can be done to design privacy in at every point in the development lifecycle.
Read moreInaugural iappANZ Privacy Conference
Stephen spoke on the Technologists Panel at the first conference of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, A-NZ Chapter, in Sydney, 27 August 2008.
Read morePrivacy & Security presentation – ID Summit 2008
Stephen’s closing address at the ID Summit, 12 March 2008 in Sydney, discussed the wrong headed tension between security & privacy, and illustrated how we can (indeed, must) protect both at the same time, using techniques such as Lockstep Technologies’ “Stepwise”.
Read moreLockstep transaction de-identification
Lockstep Technologies R&D has led to a unique de-identification solution, which could decentralise personal identifiers, and quarantine the information flowing to government agencies, banks, healthcare providers and so on.
Read morePrivacy Engineering Guidelines Presentation
A presentation to the Australian Information Security Association annual seminar day 2007.
Read morePatient Privacy and Security , Not a zero sum game!
An invited paper in a special edition of “Australasian Epidemiologist” on ethics and privacy.
Read moreSubmission to the 2005 Senate inquiry
Lockstep made a detailed submission to the 2005 Senate inquiry into the Privacy Act, focussing on smartcards and biometrics.
Read moreSubmission to Dept of Health & Ageing on the National Health Privacy Code
Stephen Wilson wrote a detailed submission on the Department of Health and Ageing’s draft privacy code in 2003.
Read moreMapping Privacy requirements onto the IT function
A detailed examination of the relationship between privacy and the enterprise IT function.
Read moreDon’t let privacy take IT by surprise
Technologists and e-security specialists can misjudge privacy as ‘merely a business issue’ and so underestimate how the IT function can impact privacy compliance.
Read moreSubmission to the Spyware Inquiry
Lockstep made a written submission to the recent public inquiry into spyware by the Department of IT, Communications and the Arts
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