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…
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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…
American WikiLeaks Hacker’ reveals an astonishing contradiction about who has a right to privacy
Natasha Bertrand reports: Internet freedom advocate Jacob Appelbaum recently told Fusion that he believes everyone has the right to privacy. “I don’t think any surveillance is legitimate,” he told reporter Kashmir Hill. “Everyone should have the right to privacy and know their emails won’t be read, even if they are horrible people, like cops in Ferguson.” At…