Katitza Rodriguez of EFF comments on Data Privacy Day 2011 and then writes: EFF calls upon governments worldwide to: Repeal the EU Data Retention Directive, and any mandatory data retention regime that requires ISP to preemptively record traffic data about the online activities of millions of citizens who haven’t committed any crime. Provide strong safeguards against…
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Behind the scenes of Wired magazine’s personalized covers
David Rowan writes: A few selected readers have received an ultra-personalised cover on their issue of Wired this month. We wanted to see how much personal data we could easily find about them from publicly available sources — as a means of emphasising some of the points made in our cover story by Andrew Keen,…
EPIC Awards 2011 Privacy Champion Award to Sophie in’t Veld and Jeff Chester
From EPIC.org: EPIC has presented the 2011 International Privacy Champion Award to European Parliament Member Sophie in’t Veld and the 2011 Domestic Privacy Champion Award to Jeff Chester, founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. In’t Veld was recognized for her work as “leading defender of fundamental freedoms,” Chester as a “tireless champion of consumer…
Data Privacy Day 2011: Thanking Twitter and thoughts for the future
Happy Data Privacy Day 2011, everyone! I hope you’ve gotten to participate in interesting events or taken the opportunity to think more about privacy and where we’re going. The past month or so has been somewhat thought-provoking for me in terms of realizing that as much as privacy advocates condemn, complain, and push for privacy…