David Canton comments on the recent conviction of three Google executives over a video they neither created nor posted: The ramifications of this decision are far-reaching. If directors of international companies can be held personally responsible for every last item posted on their websites, this could create a climate of censorship preventing any possibly controversial…
Category: Non-U.S.
Reaching for the Cloud(s): Privacy Issues related to Cloud Computing
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Executive Summary: Cloud computing is a general term for an emerging kind of infrastructure. It describes any system where information and/or applications are stored online, allowing access to be achieved by the user via a device. For the purposes of that application or data the personal…
New EU project on privacy launched
I was sent the following press release about a new project, named PRESCIENT for Privacy and Emerging Sciences and Technologies: Emerging technologies offer significant benefits but also risks to our privacy. How to deal with these risks is the subject of a new three-year project funded by the European Commission. Called PRESCIENT, the project will…
A big night out: drinking, dancing, fingerprinting
Saffron Howden reports: Somewhere in Perth’s central business district is a building containing the names, ages, addresses, photographs and unique fingerprint codes of thousands of revellers who danced and drank at Sydney’s Home nightclub last year. Home, in Darling Harbour, began trialling a biometric ID scanning entry system nine months ago. Patrons lined up before…