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 and the challenges they face. Additionally, I started to think about the legal challenges we . . . → Read More: Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud

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 YouTube.

However, we released a study on Privacy which is pretty interesting. Find the summary . . . → Read More: Data Protection Day: An Interesting Study

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. Trust me, I am not explicitly looking for such approaches but seem to find them . . . → Read More: Un-Google Yourself: Remove your Web Content

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

. . . → Read More: When Goog becomes your Roommate (a "must see")

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

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

Roger

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: http://eskills.eun.org/web/dprotection/gallery Watch all shortlisted entries: Watch the winning entries: Little Betsy – Bulgaria ID . . . → Read More: Data Protection Day 2009

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 the net – Think privacy!

So, please spread the word!

Roger

. . . → Read More: Privacy Video Competition

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 as extremely important, not only in terms of the way we manage our customers’ data, . . . → Read More: Important Privacy Announcement

How to circumvent Privacy Laws

As you all know, most jurisdictions allow individuals to ask for data collected by an organization (being it a company or a governmental organization). A lot of countries have Data Protection Commissioners that look into what companies and more often governments do with regards to PII (Personal Identifiable Information). After 9/11 the United States forced . . . → Read More: How to circumvent Privacy Laws

Microsoft sponsors Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards

It is not really news anymore as it broke during my vacation. However, it is important from my point of view:

We are a proud sponsor (and not for the first time) of the Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards, which recognizes the work of researchers in the area of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. There was a . . . → Read More: Microsoft sponsors Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards

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