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Your Autobiographical Trail
An interesting observation in Joel Brenner’s book, “America the Vulnerable.” The overlapping and ever-expanding appetite of government and commerce to keep tabs on us— and our own appetite for keeping...
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Orwell was a Prophet
I read a chilling article in the Wall Street Journal this evening, entitled, “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.” Yep … that means you and me – data about us law abiding citizens...
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Big Data is Watching You
Nishant Kaushik’s tweet today prompted some paranoid thoughts about the use of big data analytics. Scary #Privacy News Day: Raytheon RIOT – http://t.co/FB4dsnjv AND Equifax selling Employer shared...
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Privacy and Security by Design: A Convergence of Paradigms
In the Oracle Information InDepth newsletter I just received, a new white paper, “Privacy and Security by Design: A Convergence of Paradigms,” was announced. The paper is a collaboration of Ann...
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Report: Unlocking the Value of Personal Data
An interesting new report came to my attention today, “ Unlocking the Value of Personal Datra: From Collection to Usage,” published by the World Economic Forum, prepared in collaboration with The...
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Strong Alignment: Privacy and Security by Design
Today I had the privilege of having lunch with Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, along with Jack Crail, Oracle Director of Security Sales Consulting for the...
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Privacy by Design – Principles or Requirements?
After reading the white paper, “Privacy and Security by Design, A Convergence of Paradigms,” this week, I pinged a couple of associates on Twitter to see what they thought about Privacy by Design....
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Mammoth – Will it be my Personal Cloud?
The most intriguing thing to hit my desk today was the announcement of the new Mammoth service to ”save links, add notes, and selectively grab content from multiple webpages into a single, shareable,...
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#PrivQA Chat Archive
Last Thursday, I participated in the Privacy Tweet Chat led by @OracleIDM, featuring Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Canada, tweeting as @embedprivacy. The #PrivQA...
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Gigabytes of Personal Data
Now, in honor of my post about Personal Clouds - the philosophy of Frank & Ernest:
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Privacy by Design Ambassador
It was an honor today to be announced as a Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada: Privacy by Design Ambassadors are an exclusive, but growing,...
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Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach
Today, we are pleased to announce publication of a paper entitled “Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach,” which I co-authored with Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Information &...
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In the following video, Dr. Ann Cavoukian describes the paper I was privileged to co-author with her. More information and a download link is available here.
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Privacy and Security by Design: Foundational Principles
To prepare for my first meeting with Ann Cavoukian earlier this year, I drafted a brief table which proposed a set of principles for Security by Design that aligned with the well-know foundational...
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Great Book – Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
This evening, I finished reading a fascinating book, “Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy,” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. Scoble and Israel propose that we are in the...
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Protect Privacy to Build Trust in the Age of Context
My recent post about the book, “Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy,” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, began to explore the benefits that might accrue from converging...
View ArticleVideo: Ann Cavoukian – Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise...
The following video features Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada, discussing the paper I co-authored with her, “Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise...
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$1,000 per Record?
Today, I read of at three separate instances where class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of people whose personal information had been breached at a healthcare company. The largest lawsuit,...
View ArticleYour Copy Machine – A Security Threat?
The thought never crossed my mind until my colleague Jack Crail sent me a link to this short CBS News video that outlines little-known security risks lurking in the background – hard drives in digital...
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Copy Machine Security Threat: A Solution
In response to my colleague, Jack Crail, who circulated the link to the video in my previous post, another colleague, Brad Diggs, responded: Hey Jack, No this isn’t an urban legend. I have been...
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