Read about what Tim Berners-Lee was talking about at Nokia World 2010 under the four main themes of: privacy, accountability, neutrality, and finally bringing web access to the rest of the world reported by ReadWriteWeb.
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UK companies are using insurance instead of security to protect your personal data
This really is NOT cool. UK companies, instead of investing in taking the privacy of personal data seriously, i.e. by implementing controls that prevent unauthorized access, they are taking out insurance policies to protect themselves from the ensuing damages that could follow. According to Beer, of the UK companies that had insurance protecting against “theft or misuse of assets such as electronic data or customer records”, an enormous 83% had successfully made a claim on the policy, compared with only 13% globally. Read more: Companies turn to insurance as data-loss safety net at PC Pro
EU cookie directive – before and after
I found a nice analysis of how the EU directive on data privacy has changed with reference to the loading of cookies on a user’s PC. Check this post out by Raul Mendez, it is nicely described.
New privacy laws in Germany
Interesting developments in Germany. They are passing laws that:
1) restrict data mining (on social networking sites) of potential candidates for jobs; and,
2) privacy in the workplace in favour of the employee
So you like cookies?
Here is a good article that describes how cookies work. It is important to know that with the EU amendments to the Directive on Data Privacy, it will become law in member states to inform the user that a cookie is being dropped on their PC. This falls in line with the general collection of personal information in that the data subject must be informed that personal information about them is being collected, and they must consent to this.
You don’t need to be disconnected to relax according to Adam Erlandsson of SvD!
I love this quote that I picked out of SvD today.
“Jag behöver inte vara nedkopplad för att vara avkopplad, snarare föredrar jag faktiskt at vara uppkopplad.”
In English, you lose the funny aspect of this quote in translation unfortunately.
An interesting demographic shift is happening
Yes.. about five years ago I moved to an island that has no bridge connection, so you have to take a boat to get there.. five years ago this was considered to be quite impractical, although I did not see it this way as I work remotely quite a lot, we have broadband on the island and also it is only an hour travel to get into the centre of the city.
Seems that the idea is catching on, just this year at least three of my work colleagues are moving from out of the city into the country, one is moving into the mountains and another 7-8 hours by car up north back to her roots. The question that has driven them is why live in the city when we can work wherever we like!
Broadband is changing the demographics, along with changing expectations on work/life quality. And imagine if the dispersed family unit were to start being closer, not just virtually, but physically too again? No need to move to the work, the work can work where you live.
The wonders of technology 🙂
Have you bothered to configure your privacy settings on Facebook yet?
If you haven’t taken the effort to configure your privacy settings on your Facebook account, now you have a good motivator to make you feel it a priority. Not only is your profile information public, and has always been if you have not configured your privacy settings, but now your profile along with 100 million others have been mined and structured and made available online. Read more at bbc news.
Surveyed whilst you pray
Just heard on the radio that they are planning to install surveillance cameras in the churches in Sweden.
looking guilty at the airport?
I missed a flight with a baby in tow just end of July, and wondering how well I would have passed this test after having no choice but to wait in Stansted airport the whole day before I was allowed to check in ;-(