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Business input to privacy & security frameworks that deliver: RSA, End to End Trust & the remarks of Microsoft's Scott Charney

Wed, 03/03/10 - Malcolm Crompton
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Business is contributing to re-thinking effective privacy frameworks, too. Microsoft's Scott Charney has been developing his thinking on 'End to End Trust' for a couple of years now and returned to the theme at the RSA Conference 2010.

EC thinking on privacy definitely on the move...

Mon, 15/02/10 - Malcolm Crompton
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The European Commission (EC) and its partners hosted aconference on “Trust in the Information Society” in Spain 10-11 February where the winds of change became even more apparent.

Ahead of the Curve? Recent trans-Atlantic thinking on privacy that sounds familiar

Mon, 01/02/10 - Malcolm Crompton
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The US Federal Trade Commission and the European Trade Commission have both revealed a recent change in their thinking on privacy protection best practice that shifts the focus from choice to trust.  This development is consistent with some work we’ve been doing here in Australia, and talking about here on Open Forum, for some time now.

Cloud Computing Made Simple

Wed, 27/01/10 - Malcolm Crompton
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There is a lot of fluff surrounding Cloud Computing and it starts with the terminology. One dangerous consequence is very poor identification of the new levels of risk that might be created: who makes the decisions and who bears the consequences. But help is at hand.

Empowering individuals to control their personal information

Thu, 10/12/09 - Malcolm Crompton
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A privacy paper from the UK tells only part the story of ‘context specific authentication’ and leaves at least two questions unanswered.

When Less is More

Wed, 28/10/09 - Malcolm Crompton
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Without any expectation that privacy statements should be able to be read and understood by the average person, how is it reasonable to expect the average person to accept full responsibility for the disclosure of their personal private information?

Australia Finally Heading in the Right Direction on e-Health

Fri, 16/10/09 - Robin McKenzie
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A person-controlled e-health record is not only the most speedy and cost effective solution for the national e-Health strategy, but it is also the approach with the best chance of achieving widespread consumer acceptance. 

iappANZ Annual Conference - 14 October 2009, Melbourne

Fri, 25/09/2009 - 09:23 — Site Administrator

Privacy Proofing Your Organisation: for NOW and the Future

iappANZ Annual Conference, Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Federation Square Melbourne, Australia

The International Association of Privacy Professionals Australia and New Zealand (iappANZ) invites you to attend the most important privacy conference to be held this year.

Hear from expert national and international speakers, senior government officials and regulators on the issues that matter most to you. You will take away practical ideas you can implement immediately, as well as ideas and initiatives you can explore for the future.

The conference program includes the Privacy Commissioners from Australia and New Zealand in a video link-up interactive session, senior privacy government officials and experts on IT security, privacy and protection in social networking environments, emerging issues in privacy and e-health, identity management and verification and the data management lifecycle.

If you’re unable to make it to the conference in Melbourne, join like-minded privacy professionals in New Zealand for a selection of presentations via video link and a special presentation from PricewaterhouseCoopers. You will also have the opportunity to network with your colleagues.

 

 

 

For full details see the iappANZ webiste.

Firewall of Lies

Thu, 17/09/09 - Alexandra Roach
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The glaring technical flaws of the proposed mandatory internet filter scheme are bad enough, but it is the lies that have been used to sell it which should alarm us the most.

Hotels, Identity Thieves and Terrorism

Fri, 21/08/09 - StephenWilson
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The reservations databases of global hotel chains are a complete cornucopia for criminals.