Vandals in Germany have sabotaged a Google “Street View” car, police said Tuesday, an apparent act of protest against the navigation service that is controversial in the country amid privacy concerns. A Google employee left his specially-modified black Opel with eight mounted cameras parked overnight in the northern city of Oldenburg, but returned to find…
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Ramifications of Google ruling far-reaching
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…
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…