Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Online Advertising: privacy issues are important, but they don’t belong in merger reviews

›
As the European Commission and the US Federal Trade Commission review Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, a number of academics, p...
2 comments:

Can you “identify” the person walking down the street?

›
I recently posted a blog on Google’s Lat Long Blog about Street View and privacy. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/09/street-view-a...
2 comments:
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

I like the anonymity of the big city

›
For much of history, people lived in small communities, where everyone knew them, and they knew everyone. Identity was largely inherited an...
4 comments:
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Eric Schmidt on Global Privacy Standards

›
Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, added his voice to the debate on global privacy standards with this OpEd, published in a number of outlets a...
1 comment:
Friday, September 14, 2007

The Need for Global Privacy Standards

›
Introduction How should we update privacy concepts for the Information Age? The total amount of data in the world is exploding, and data fl...
2 comments:
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Slowing down: 17 minutes for privacy

›
In the era of the soundbite and the tabloid headline, it's almost startling to be invited to talk on radio about privacy at Google for ...

IP Geolocation: knowing where users are – very roughly

›
A lot of Internet services take IP-based geolocation into account. In other words, they look at a user's IP address to try to guess the...
2 comments:
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Do you read privacy policies, c'mon, really?

›
What’s the best way to communicate information about privacy to consumers? Virtually all companies do this in writing, via privacy policies...
3 comments:
Monday, August 27, 2007

Data Protection Officers according to German law

›
Some of you might be interested in German law on data protection officers. I’m going to give this to you in factual terms. [This isn’t lega...
2 comments:
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Safe Harbor: the verification problem

›
A company that signs up to comply with the provisions of the Safe Harbor Agreement for the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US m...
1 comment:
Monday, July 16, 2007

Safe Harbor Privacy Principles

›
Some privacy advocacy groups have made the claim (and others have repeated it) that Google doesn’t comply with any "well-established go...
Monday, July 9, 2007

I know people who spent their entire childhood hiding from the German government

›
Governments around the world are asking whether they should restrict anonymity on the Internet in the name of security. Take Germany as an ...
3 comments:
Saturday, June 23, 2007

The Working Party

›
The Working Party is a group of representatives from every European country’s data protection authority plus the European Commission, dedica...
2 comments:
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Server Logs and Security

›
I recently posted a blog to explain why Google retains search server logs for 18 months before anonymizing them. http://googleblog.blogspot....
Monday, June 4, 2007

Did you mean Paris France or Paris Hilton?

›
Here's an OpEd I contributed to the Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/560c6a06-0a63-11dc-93ae-000b5df10621.html Published: May 2...
1 comment:
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Sweden and government surveillance

›
All democratic governments need to maintain a delicate balance between 1) respect for the private lives of their citizens, and 2) police and...
7 comments:
Monday, May 7, 2007

Some rules of thumb for online privacy

›
Here's a short 0pinion piece that I contributed to this month's edition of .net magazine: http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/latest-issue/...
1 comment:
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés

›
It used to be said that “pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés.” If only life were still that simple. But today all of us regularly trust othe...
1 comment: