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Highlights from Recent Posts
 

"Business is contributing to re-thinking effective privacy frameworks, too. Microsoft's Scott Charney has been developing his thinking on 'End to End Trust' for a couple of years now and returned to the theme at the RSA Conference 2010..."

"The European Commission (EC) and its partners hosted a conference on "Trust in the Information Society" in Spain 10-11 February where the winds of change became even more apparent..."

"At the risk of mixing metaphors, it seems that there is movement at the station, on both sides of the Atlantic, on the need for new thinking on how best to respect personal information about individuals and manage the risks to which they might be exposed as a consequence of its collection, use and disclosure..."

"Cloud computing has been a popular term for a year or two now, but many of us still don't know what it is or its implications. To a degree, it is old wine in new bottles (hotmail has been around for over a decade now), but it is also so much more..."

"A privacy paper from the UK tells only part the story of 'context specific authentication' and leaves at least two questions unanswered..."

"Without any expectation that privacy statements should be able to be read and understood by the average person, how is it reasonable to expect the average person to accept full responsibility for the disclosure of their personal private information?..."

"A person-controlled e-health record is not only the most speedy and cost effective solution for the national e-Health strategy, but it is also the approach with the best chance of achieving widespread consumer acceptance..."

"Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: both powerful advocates of a right to privacy; both choosing how little and how much of their private lives that they wanted to reveal..."

"The experiences of handling (and losing) personal information have a lot to tell us about better security in any organisation. The National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act are just a start..."

"For all those Mac fans who think that they are immune from vulnerabilities, think again..."

"Cloud computing is bringing privacy out of dark corners of cuckoo land and into the daylight where it belongs..."

"As the political pendulum swings back over the next decade or so towards more regulation of the markets, how do we stop it from swinging too far?.."

"Identity management and how easy it is to mislead people, sometimes for mischievous intent, sometimes for profit & sometimes with very evil intent, will remain a major issue for us in Australia & worldwide in 2009..."

"As information flows ever more easily between jurisdictions, how can effective regulatory protections be put in place for the stakeholders? This question applies equally to the protection of intellectual property (IP) as it does to the protection of personal information (PI) or any other valuable information assets held by an organisation..."

"What is happening in the global debate on how to make it safe for individuals to share personal information (or have it shared), otherwise known as "information privacy"? What about a significant part of this discussion, developing identity management arrangements for the 21st century that respect the individual, otherwise known as 'user centric identity management'?.."

"The debate has been long on rhetoric and short on cold, hard analysis. But it may be about to improve...."

"In the world of information governance and a fair go for the individual in dealings with business and government, how has it felt this month?.."

"The upcoming identity conference in New Zealand is going to be a high spot for ID management in this part of the world; indeed anywhere..."

"Applying transparency and ratings to policing raises some fascinating questions that have been around for a long time..."

"The bar for acceptable ID management has just been suddenly raised. Microsoft has just announced it has purchased Stefan Brand's Credentica, a truly privacy enhancing Identity Management system that delivers on more of Kim Cameron's 7 Laws of Identity. ..."

"We are in an interesting period of leadership change. In Australia, we elected a new federal government at the end of 2007. The UK has a new PM & the USA will have a new president by the end of 2008. Is the privacy debate changing too, reflecting a new mood?.."

"Facebook has recently been rattling our confidence somewhat. On November 6, Facebook outlined a strategy to integrate more targeted advertising into its popular social networking website. By 5 December, the strategy had been wound back & the CEO of Facebook had offered an apology. What was this about & what has this to do with citizens and governments?.."

"We have been talking eHealth records for years. Almost worldwide, the topic is treated by many in the health informatics arena as a self-evident necessity, by some health service providers as an investment and retraining imposition with little direct return to their practices and by health consumers with suspicion..."

"We are watching a very rapid change in community attitudes on privacy. One of the strongest contributors is the repeated and significant loss of control of personal information by private and public sector organisations around the world. Nearly as many records of personal information about folk in the US have been lost as there are citizens. In the UK this month, in one hit, they got up to a 50 % ratio. Where does Australia stand?.."