Richard Gilbert reports: The Industry Training Authority (ITA) in B.C. shared detailed information about apprenticed employees with public and private trades training institutes, which has outraged members of the local non-union contractors association. “It is offensive to the open shop sector to give out the names, addresses, telephone numbers, the level the apprentices were at…
Designing the personal data stream: Enabling participatory privacy in mobile personal sensing
The Abstract from Designing the Personal Data Stream: Enabling Participatory Privacy in Mobile Personal Sensing by Katie Shilton, Jeffrey A. Burke, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, Mark Hansen, Jerry Kang, and Min Mun: For decades, the Codes of Fair Information Practice have served as a model for data privacy, protecting personal information collected by governments and…
Data protection march in Berlin
Euronews reports: More than 10,000 people have been demonstrating on the streets of Berlin to demand better personal data protection. Under the banner “freedom not fear”, as many as 167 organisations including unions, journalists and artists’ groups marched through the German capital. The protest follows a the passing of a law allowing authorities to monitor…
A Legal Battle: Online Attitude vs. Rules of the Bar
John Schwartz reports: Sean Conway was steamed at a Fort Lauderdale judge, so he did what millions of angry people do these days: he blogged about her, saying she was an “Evil, Unfair Witch.” But Mr. Conway is a lawyer. And unlike millions of other online hotheads, he found himself hauled up before the Florida…