A new report has been released by The Privacy Projects that will be of interest to some readers: At the 30th Anniversary of the OECD Privacy Guidelines, we present a comparative study of how those guidelines have influenced the development of laws, regulations and public policy in five representative OECD member states – Australia, Canada,…
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In: Right to privacy and biometrics of the UID
Industrialist Ratan Tata has the capacity to challenge a breach of his privacy in the Supreme Court. But what about the nearly 60 crore Indian residents who don’t know what will become of the biometric data being collected by UIDAI? The leak of the Niira Radia tapes in India and thousands of US classified documents…
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ report: Little risk to allowing gays to serve openly
Ed O’Keefe and Craig Whitlock report: The Pentagon’s long-awaited report on gays in the military concludes that repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” law would present only a low risk to the armed forces’ ability to carry out their missions and that 70 percent of service members believe it would have little or no…
The Privacy Lessons in the Latest Wikileaks Data Dump
Kashmir Hill writes: Wikileaks worships at the shrine of rabid transparency. And it does not just sacrifice government documents to the transparency gods; founder Julian Assange tells my colleague Andy Greenberg that corporate America is the site’s next big target. Stanford’s Consumer Privacy Project director Ryan Calo has an interesting take on privacy lessons learned from the…