SAITS Privacy issues and technology http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS 2007-12-18T18:19:22Z http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/graphics/saits-rss.gif http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS "On RFID: The Next step to the Internet of Things" will take place on November 15 -- 16, 2007 (Lisbon, Portugal). http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/12.html#item4365 2007-12-18 Mozilla's head of security has promised a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that's been lurking in the popular Firefox browser for more than eight months. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4364 2007-11-19 Like most journalists I know I'm very sloppy about keeping my online communications secure. I rarely encrypt e-mail messages, leaving them to be read by anyone in the electronic chain between me and the intended recipient. And I use public chat services like MSN Messenger and iChat, even though they send messages as plain text across the network. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4363 2007-11-19 The often-quoted number of times the average Londoner is caught on camera per day is scary: 200. (And that was a few years ago; it's probably gone up.) ... What is the right, privacy-conscious response to make? http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4362 2007-11-11 As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4361 2007-11-11 Hugo Teufel III, chief privacy officer of the Homeland Security Department, said recently at a roundtable discussion on cyber security for the Congressional High Tech Caucus that there was no need to balance privacy and security. The two go hand in hand, he said. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4360 2007-11-09 Criminals have plenty of reasons for wanting to encrypt their e-mail, and services like Hushmail offers such encryption in a strong form; not even the company can view the messages sent through its systems. Under most circumstances. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4359 2007-11-08 The Czech Interior Ministry introduced in October 2007 a new National Action Plan to Combat Terrorism that would increase the access of the police and intelligence authorities to personal data, under the pretext of the protection against terrorism. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4358 2007-11-07 ICANN meeting that took place last week (29 October - 2 November 2007) in Los Angeles was expected to decide on the WHOIS database privacy problems. But unfortunately the decision taken was just to make further studies on the matter, despite the already seven years of discussions on this topic. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4357 2007-11-07 The European Commission(EC) put forward on 6 November 2007 a PNR plan that is almost similar to the EU-USA PNR (Passenger Name Records) agreement. The EU PNR plan is part of a new package of proposals "aimed at improving the EU's capabilities in the fight against terrorism." http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4356 2007-11-07 European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) is supporting the letter Privacy International (PI) sent on 5 November 2007 asking the head of the European Commission DG Competition, Commissioner Kroes, to take the merger of Google-Doubleclick to the next phase. PI argues that the merger could have serious implications for privacy innovation in advertising. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4355 2007-11-07 Canada's privacy commissioner says there was very little consultation with her office before the Conservative government introduced a no-fly list for air travellers last June. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4354 2007-11-06 Part of a new anti-terrorism campaign, a commission proposal would allow member states to collect personal information and keep it for 13 years http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4353 2007-11-05 Nu ersätter kollektivtrafiken biljetter och månadskort med smartkort som lämnar elektroniska spår. Datainspektionen har granskat de tre stora bolagens system och godkänner korten på vissa villkor. Till exempel ska man kunna resa anonymt. http://www.sics.se/~olleo/SAITS/news-archive/2007/11.html#item4352 2007-11-01