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Consent: a red herring?
I asked Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, a question about ‘opt-in’ or ‘opt-out’, in a panel session at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference in Brussels in January, to...
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Opting out of Street View….
Nearly 250,000 Germans have ‘opted out’ of having their homes visible when Google’s Street View comes online, though Andreas Türk, Product Manager for Street View in Germany, has admitted that some of...
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Privacy is not the enemy…
I attended the Oxford Institute event ‘Anonymity, Privacy and Open Data’ yesterday, notable amongst other things for Professor Ross Anderson’s systematic and incredibly powerful destruction of the...
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Annoyed by those cookie warnings?
…spread your anger! I’m sure you know the warnings I’m talking about – at least you do if you’re in the European Union. Warnings that appear almost every time you look at a new page on the web, telling...
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Privacy for all?
The big ‘privacy’ story this week has been that surrounding the Duchess of Cambridge’s breasts. The coverage it’s been given (and will doubtless continue to be given) has been immense – but the issues...
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Care.data and the community…
The latest piece of health data news, that, according to the Telegraph, the hospital records of all NHS patients have been sold to insurers, is a body-blow to the care.data scheme, but make no mistake...
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Tim Kelsey discovers care.data is in trouble…
For avoidance of doubt, I created this video – or rather I wrote the subtitles to add to the original. It’s a parody based on the great movie Downfall, and follows a whole series of parodies made...
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Facebook’s updated terms and conditions…. ;)
In the light of the recently revealed ‘Facebook Experiment’, Facebook has issued new, simplified terms and conditions.* Emotional Manipulation By using Facebook, you consent to having your emotions and...
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