Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Cloud: policy consequences for privacy when data no longer has a clear location

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Cloud Computing has become one of the more influential tech trends of our day. The Cloud is roughly analogous to remote computing, where com...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

A picture of your house on the Internet for all to see

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I did a little OpEd in the French paper Liberation on Google's Street View and privacy. Only fair, I guess, to put a picture of my own ...
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Monday, February 9, 2009

Lead Data Protection Authority

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Lead Data Protection Authority:  how EU data protection regulation can catch up with other areas of European law Being a global company mean...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Launching another "global" forum to talk about privacy

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There is a new buzz these days in privacy circles: the idea of global standards seems to be gaining momentum.  On January 12, privacy commis...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Lessons from the failure of global financial regulation

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The financial crisis has everyone talking about global financial regulation. Why didn’t regulations work? And how can regulation be refor...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Why would Germans claim their "privacy" laws prevents them from publishing a list of victims of Nazi terror?

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There was a short report in the BBC today which struck me, my highlights in red :   " The federal archive in Berlin has for the first t...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Relax: the Faroe Islands have adequate data protection

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Lots of people in Europe are trying to figure out how to reduce bureaucracy and red tape.  Let's face it:  we Europeans face some of the...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Talking to Monsieur Tout-le-Monde

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I think privacy professionals need to get out more. I mean, talk to real people, average consumers, normal Internet users. Most of us priv...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Talking about privacy

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I think it's really important to contribute to robust public debates about online privacy issues. And I think it's really important...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Can a website identify a user based on IP address?

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There is a public debate about whether IP addresses should be considered to be “personally-identifiable data” (to use the US phrase) or “per...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Transparency, Google and Privacy

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A group called One World Trust sent a survey to Google. A lot of people ask us to fill out surveys. I’m not sure who at Google they sent it ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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

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As the European Commission and the US Federal Trade Commission review Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, a number of academics, p...
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Can you “identify” the person walking down the street?

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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...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

I like the anonymity of the big city

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

Eric Schmidt on Global Privacy Standards

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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...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

The Need for Global Privacy Standards

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Introduction How should we update privacy concepts for the Information Age? The total amount of data in the world is exploding, and data fl...
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