Category Archives: Privacy

Strong Authentication and Privacy – A Contradiction in Terms?

You know that I am not a big fan of the requirement for having all Internet users authenticate strongly. There are people in the security arena who think that this is the only way to fight cybercrime – and in … Continue reading

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Data Protection Heat Map

I was looking at some research done by Forrester which could be interesting for you as well. They try to lay out the landscape with regards to data protection for you and it looks fairly compelling. So if you are … Continue reading

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Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud

To start with: I am an engineer not a lawyer – and this might be part of the problem… When I started to think about the Cloud and security and thought about all the work I do with Law Enforcement … Continue reading

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Data Protection Day: An Interesting Study

As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on … Continue reading

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Un-Google Yourself: Remove your Web Content

A few days ago, I blogged on Tired of Web 2.0? Kill your Online Identities – an automated way to “disappear” from Web 2.0 (actually Facebook has banned the tool since…). Today, I was reading an article called Un-Google Yourself. … Continue reading

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When Goog becomes your Roommate (a “must see”)

I just found that this morning. If you have 15 minutes, you have to watch these videos. They are really fun (are they?):   Enjoy! I did (partly) Roger

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Onion News: The Future of Privacy – the Google Opt-Out Village

Not really serious – just fun (or isn’t it??): Roger

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Data Protection Day 2009

In early December I blogged about the Privacy Video Competition of the Data Protection Day. Today is the day: The winners just were announced. If you want to look at the videos (they are actually pretty cool): Watch all entries: … Continue reading

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Privacy Video Competition

On January 28th the European Union is holding the Data Protection Day. To prepare for that, they are holding a competition for young people from 15 to 19 to express their views about online privacy. Here is the teaser: Surf … Continue reading

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Important Privacy Announcement

I  wanted to make you aware of a very important announcement we made earlier today. As you know, Trustworthy Computing is all about Security,  Reliability and Business Practices. Our house has a fourth pillar -  Privacy – which we view … Continue reading

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