Privacy News & Views
News from the world of Privacy & Consent
- A New Era for Privacy12 May 2010, 7:06 am
[Toby Stevens (mailto:toby.stevens@privacygroup.org) , 12th May 2010] It's a bright, sunny morning. Finally, we have a new government. I'm excited....... - Information - Assurance or Atrophy?30 March 2010, 9:42 am
Toby Stevens explores the challenges that face the next government if it is to successfully overhaul delivery of information assurance...... - EPG Workshops: Privacy, Security and Identity Under a Conservative Government20 November 2009, 10:20 am
Note: This event is oversubscribed and we are unable to offer up any more places. We will publish details of...... - IPS Experts Group and Public Panel17 September 2009, 7:23 pm
In 2008 and early 2009 the Enterprise Privacy Group established the IPS Forum, a small consultative group that examined stakeholder...... - The Death of ID16 September 2009, 3:29 pm
On Tuesday 15th September Toby Stevens addressed a Metavante breakfast briefing on The Death of ID.: His presentation is......
- Google hiring bond traders23 March 2010, 5:53 pm
Google is reported to be recruiting bond traders. So what? They're a big company, they doubtless have a corporate treasury function (although being Google they've probably come up with a much more interesting name for it), they probably need to run their own funds purely to manage the enormous heaps of real and theoretical cash sloshing around the place. The thing is, these traders will have a secret weapon: the results of your web searches. They can look at search trends to understand what othe... - Shome mishtake shurely?22 March 2010, 8:15 am
A very unpleasant little amendment to the Licensing Act (2003) is in front of Ministers for approval as a Statutory Instrument (SI). If you're not familiar with the process, a SI is a delegated legislation made under the powers of a parent Act, and it is very rare for a SI to be amended or changed - it is generally either approved or rejected when presented to Parliament. The SI in question is there to address binge drinking by restricting licensees' abilities to offer discounted booze and encou... - The Annuality Agenda18 March 2010, 9:25 am
The financial year end is nearly upon us. In a couple of weeks' time, government departments are expected to draw a line under many of their existing procurement contracts and move to a new budget year. As always, there's a flurry of small, last-minute procurements as they spot a few thousand pounds here and there that have to be used up otherwise they'll be lost from next year's allowance. In a normal year, this would be followed by the release of the purse-strings on larger pieces of work that... - Why seals don't always perform2 March 2010, 2:42 pm
The US Federal Trade Commission has just found so-called privacy and security certification service ControlScan guilty of failing to monitor the practices of its certified sites. In their settlement agreement, they state that "founder and former Chief Executive Officer has entered into a separate settlement that requires him to give up $102,000 in ill-gotten gains." ControlScan offered a variety of privacy and security seals for display on Web sites. Consumers could click on the seals to discov... - RSA Conference Europe opens call for speakers1 March 2010, 8:39 am
The RSA Conference Europe is now accepting calls for papers for the conference on 12-14 October in London. I've always found the event to be a great mix of security, identity and privacy content, and an excellent networking opportunity. If you're interested in a free VIP ticket, then now's the time to get your paper in - speaker submissions close on 9th April 2010. [Declaration of interests: I'm a panel judge for the conference, which is an unpaid role]...
- Gates31 August 2010, 4:00 pm
[Dave Birch] I'm happy when my teenage son is on Facebook talking to all of his friends from the warmth and comfort of his bedroom rather than hanging out with them in a freezing and desolate town centre where he...... - Listening in30 August 2010, 3:45 pm
I remember discussing this with someone -- but due to my advancing years, I can't remember who -- a few months ago after reading some of the reputation-realted discussion on the Burton Group blog. The discussion about Personas Need Reputation, Too! was about what a protocol to support reputation might look like. The idea was to enable multiple parties to engage and have the outcome of the engagement (in the form of claims about relationships) communicated.... - There has to be a reason for this25 August 2010, 5:35 pm
[Dave Birch] The German personal identity card is being introduced with an online framework. The eCard-API framework -- which is essentially collection of standards for services including e-passport, e-health and so on -- means that e-commerce, e-banking and e-government will...... - Passport minus17 August 2010, 12:19 pm
[Dave Birch] Pretty much every decision that the British government has made about ID cards has not only turned out to wrong, but almost optimally wrong. The collection of civil servants, management consultants, ministers and special advisors managed to leave...... - My new mantra13 August 2010, 2:10 pm
I use it because I can see that we are heading into a transition period between the "old" world of electronic payments where we built dedicated networks to move money from account to account (the world of Visa and American Express, MasterCard and Diners) to a "new" world of electronic payments where there is a single network that all participants access. ... This is because authentication is difficult and expensive: if you break down the way that, say, your debit card works, and separate the a...
- Risk mitigation16 July 2010, 1:15 pm
One of today's news stories is that several of the firms responsible for the colossal explosion at the Buncefield oil depot have been hit with fines totalling almost £10m. The judgement centred around 'slackness' in operational practices at the site, resulting in serious breaches of health and safety law.It has taken a while for the penalties to be applied: the explosion happened early on Sunday 11th December 2005. On that day, I was on a flight from Heathrow to San Francisco. Buncefield (near ... - New role...12 July 2010, 2:07 pm
As of July 19th, I start a new full-time role as a Research Director with Gartner Group (more specifically, in the Identity and Privacy Services team under the 'Burton Group' brand).I am absolutely delighted to have this opportunity. Not only will I be continuing to explore the same topics (digital identity, online privacy, access management and security...), I will also be joining a fantastic group of people - including the likes of Bob Blakley and Ian Glazer - for whom I have enormous respect.... - Large ISPs broaden attack on Digital Economy Act8 July 2010, 1:21 pm
I read with interest that BT and TalkTalk have requested a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010 before it is brought into force. As readers of this blog will be aware, opposition to the Digital Economy Bill was vociferous, widespread, and based on both principle and detail.Interestingly, BT and TalkTalk have opted to attack implementation of the Bill on a wide front - at least, as far as I can infer from this article on the BBC News site. Here are some of the points on which I underst... - Privacy and bindweed1 July 2010, 9:54 am
This being the height of the growing season in our garden, it is also the time when too much attention to any given part of a flower-bed is likely to reveal that bane of the gardener's life, a vigorous, thrusting tentacle of bindweed (convolvulus arvensis). The worst thing about bindweed is its deeply-buried, brittle and highly regenerative root system. No matter how diligently you dig and rummage and loosen, chances are you will leave a fragment of root behind - and in due course the whole gris... - Can you have federation without trust?22 June 2010, 2:05 pm
Back in olden days, when I worked for IBM, its sales & marketing people weren't allowed to use the word "risk"... because it might be taken (by customers) to imply that there was any form of risk associated with the corporation's products (this is long enough ago that it hadn't really cottoned on to 'services' yet...). And so the word was carefully expunged from the corporate lexicon (as evidence, I cite Mike Cowlishaw's seminal IBM Jargon Dictionary... look up "exposure" in the pdf file her...
- Identity Theft self-help2 September 2010, 2:24 pm
Came across this kit in the stationary shop today. I've yet to open it and find out what sensible advice it has about sorting out identity theft, but I'm looking forward to it. It had been reduced down to 99p, and there was quite a stack of them available.... - online privacy - chanel 4 news19 August 2010, 8:42 am
Dylan Sharpe from Big Brother Watch and blogger Ollie Olanipekun have a chat about online privacy on Chanel 4 News, in response to comments from Eric Schmidt about young people changing their identities to avoid embarrassing things they posted online.... - danah boyd and Jeff Jarvis debate privacy12 August 2010, 1:45 pm
Interesting discussion on privacy featuring danah boyd and Jeff Jarvis, talking at the Supernova forum - http://supernovahub.com/... - Google's widening reach.10 August 2010, 12:39 pm
This is quite neat, over at the Wall Street Journal, an animated graphic of Google's use of information from it's various sources for targetting adverts. Go have a full look. From a data visualisation perspective, the circular form is a bit exaggerating (it suggests Google is using more information as time goes on because the width of the segment increases), but it looks nice.... - Contemporary Violence10 August 2010, 10:54 am
I'd like to make a plug for a new book by Dr Cerwyn Moore, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Birmingham. Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya is published by Manchester University Press, and will be available from October.Disclosure: Ces Moore was the Principle Investigator on the project I worked on whilst I was at Birmingham, and I had the good fortune to read advance drafts of this book and get an insight into the publication process.The book draws up...
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