Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Friday, November 19th, 2010
As today is Friday, an article with considerations on rules and consumers rights within European Union- using some personal experiences as practical examples.
Last Sunday I was watching a news show reporting on watchdogs in Italy, as I reported on Frype/Facebook few days ago.
It was quite interesting to see how it was simply a confirmation that, also when an institution is built around a purpose that is not fulfilling as originally expected, it will shift its purpose from the original one to… its own survival.
Tags: market, privacy, rule, security, strike, transport, utility, watchdog
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
The five articles in this series have a single purpose: share small outlines of the approach I used in various consulting and service management activities.
Tags: advising, audit, confidentiality, controller, controlling, financial, internal, monitoring, privacy
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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
This week it was reported that the CEO Google predicts the end of privacy on the internet.
But, in part, the announce was an element within a campaign on “network neutrality”, i.e. ensuring that providers cannot filter and decide which content is published and distributed, controlling how the available resources are used.
The interesting issue is: part [...]
Tags: eu, extremist, identity, nationality, privacy
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
This short article is about the unintended consequences of desirable changes.
Anyway- the aim is not the specific case study (normative changes introduce for anti money laundering purposes), but reminding to adopt a systemic, comprehensive view while preparing the blueprint for changes.
Tags: aml, anti, change, identity, laundering, money, privacy
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Once in a while, news show us yet another issue with privacy.
The current status of data privacy
Data privacy and data confidentiality
Evolving privacy statutes
Managing knowledge
Setting common rules
Tags: confidentiality, database, privacy, rfid
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
From the press release: “The new Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC), which will replace the European Regulators Group (ERG), has its first meeting scheduled for 28 January 2010 in Brussels”.
This article will be conveniently short- as I think that privacy statutes and regulation should be.
If you are curious but either too young [...]
Tags: berec, data, privacy
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Geolocalization
If you visited websites recently, often you found that the website was tailored not just to your our language settings, but also to your own location.
As an example, search websites now have “virtual” country search sites- and, of course, spammers too.
While companies redesigned their (physical) logistics chain, often the value of geolocalization (i.e. pinpointing your location) is not fully accessible to all the people involved, from customers, to affiliates, to partners.
In this short article, a couple of questions and some ideas- with examples from both online and offline activities.
Tags: geolocalization, jurisdiction, privacy, rfid, tracking
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
After the Millennium Bug, a side-effect of 9/11 was the quest for a “silver bullet” in global and personal security.
Biometrics (see the article on Wikipedia to start your quest on what it means).
Pardon my over-simplification: I will consider biometrics, be it the actual measurement of physical, unchangeable characteristics of a human individual, or the profiling [...]
Tags: behavior, biometrics, human, information, model, privacy, security, surveillance, technology
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Effective from today, you can have your own personal address on Facebook.
Like: www.facebook.com/robertolofaro
And the new “personal address” of Facebook could allow to do a social experiment.
On how to separate public and private life while being online
Enjoy!
Tags: business, century, evolution, experiment, facebook, law, linkedin, personal, politics, privacy, profile, xxi
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
It is about time. People are starting to realize that what you post online, stays online. But both the “authors” and their “readers” are trying to shift the blame on search engines like Google. Personally- I agree with Google. Completely.
Tags: and, arthur, century, clarke, google, privacy, xxi
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