Randy Bean reports: I recently attended a talk on the topic of intellectual privacy by Neil M. Richards, Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of the recently published book, Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press). The underlying message of his talk was bracing and cautionary. Privacy breaches,…
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Microbiomes raise privacy concerns
Ellen Callaway reports: Call it a ‘gut print’. The collective DNA of the microbes that colonize a human body can uniquely identify someone, researchers have found, raising privacy issues. The finding1, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 11 May, suggests that it might be possible to identify a participant in an anonymous study of…
Resource: Online e-learning Privacy modules (New Zealand)
From the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand’s web site: Our new online Privacy training modules are now available to use. These are: Privacy 101 – which covers all the material previously taught in our Privacy Act training workshops. The material aims to introduce you to key concepts and definitions contained in the Privacy Act, including a…
Civil liberties gurus happy to invade the privacy of others
British journalist Catherine Bennett takes Julian Assange out to the woodshed over disclosure of personal information a commentary that begins: The collaboration has been a long time in coming, but so close is the current working relationship between WikiLeaks and the Daily Mail that it is becoming difficult to believe that the two organisations were ever at odds. Hardly any…