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Identity, Privacy and Trust
Examining issues around trust, privacy and data protection.
April 2008
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Identity systems will save the world
- Enterprise Privacy Group 23 Apr 2008 -
Why I won't be at Infosecurity (but there's a competition if you are)
- Enterprise Privacy Group 22 Apr 2008 -
Environment Agency takes phishing rather too literally?
- Enterprise Privacy Group 21 Apr 2008
In those parts of the world that lack any reliable means of registering births and deaths, where illiteracy levels are high, and local bureaucracy is unable to keep track of the population, it ...
Infosecurity starts today, and it will doubtless be the biggest, busiest and boldest conference yet. So why am I feeling rather underwhelmed at the prospect? Infosecurity is certainly the largest ...
A friend's application for an angling license reveals may reveal that the Environment Agency is either sloppy with its personal data or is deliberately obfuscating its privacy policies. If ...
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The battle for the Internet
- Enterprise Privacy Group 18 Apr 2008 -
Laptop privacy on the train
- Enterprise Privacy Group 18 Apr 2008 -
The Telegraph's Matt on Surveillance
- Enterprise Privacy Group 15 Apr 2008 -
Phorm public meeting
- Enterprise Privacy Group 15 Apr 2008 -
Listen in, Directors: privacy matters
- Enterprise Privacy Group 14 Apr 2008 -
Enigma, Ultra and Bletchley Park
- Enterprise Privacy Group 13 Apr 2008 -
Phish fingers
- Enterprise Privacy Group 10 Apr 2008
I'm going to draw a line under my Phorm commentary. They've opened up their plans to a privacy expert, held a public meeting, and hired a Chief Privacy Officer. This article outlines my feelings on ...
As one of the unfortunate millions who has to commute, I use my laptop on the train, and sometimes don't want the person next to me looking at what's on the screen. To date, I've used an excellent ...
A fantastic surveillance cartoon by Matt.
Controversial online advertising service Phorm is holding an open meeting with its supporters and critics this evening.
Not so long before, senior civil servants would have been able to shrug off such an incident and blame it on the system / a junior clerk / external suppliers / flawed systems inherited from the ...
Anyone with an interest in the history of cryptography and codebreaking will want to listen to l ast week's edition of The Reunion on BBC Radio 4 , in which a team of Bletchley Park employees ...
What's rather fun about this is they have no way to prove the dabs they get are legitimate, and nobody else can disprove them - not unless the individuals concerned publish their prints for ...
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Phorm opens itself to independent scrutiny
- Enterprise Privacy Group 09 Apr 2008 -
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Internet
- Enterprise Privacy Group 08 Apr 2008 -
The stocks are too good for them
- Enterprise Privacy Group 08 Apr 2008 -
The end of biometric security at airports?
- Enterprise Privacy Group 07 Apr 2008 -
Revelations about ID cards
- Enterprise Privacy Group 01 Apr 2008
Richard also makes the wise point that there is a big difference between complying with the Data Protection Act and respecting privacy: the DPA provides a framework for managing personal ...
This really does not bode well for Phorm's chances of shaking off accusations that it is a privacy-invasive service, and one would hope that the responsible individual there is now re-evaluating ...
Apparently the normal network connection was unavailable, so a password-protected CD was burned and bunged in normal Royal Mail post.. '...typically, a person condemned to the stocks was subjected ...
If they were integrated into the e-Borders programme then this would make sense, but it seems a little odd that they're demanding them as independent controls, unless the plan would be an ...
The pranksters have been at play again - apparently there are plans to scrap ID cards in favour of subcutaneous chips at birth . Meanwhile a secretive Whitehall memorandum describes the ...