Steve Ragan is suspicious: Earlier this month, several news outlets reported on a powerful tool in the fight between those seeking anonymity online, versus those who push for surveillance and taking it away. The tool, ProxyHam, is the subject of a recently canceled talk at DEF CON 23 and its creator has been seemingly gagged from speaking about anything…
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Privacy issues at top of agenda in emerging robotics sector
Neasa MacEarlean reports: Data protection is emerging as one of the main areas in which organisations need advice in the robotics sector – in areas ranging from the surveillance of staff at work to the use of cameras in drones and data retained by driverless cars. In the launch issue of Robotics Law Journal, drone lawyer…
On the passing of a great privacy advocate
We have lost one of the truly great ones. Like so many others, I was stunned to hear this morning that Caspar Bowden had passed away. I first met Caspar at a Privacy Law Scholars Conference years ago. He sat down next to me at a workshop and we started chatting. He was still Chief Privacy…
Estonian blocked as UN’s first digital privacy investigator
Reuters reports: The Estonian picked as the United Nation’s first digital privacy investigator was blocked on Friday by the German president of the UN Human Rights Council, after activist groups said she would not be a strong enough critic of US surveillance. Katrin Nyman-Metcalf was the candidate ranked first by a “consultative group” of five…