In a recent conversation with a colleague, it suddenly struck me that while I see lots of products and services (and budget dollars) supporting IT security, there are almost no products or services supporting privacy. Why is that? Security is about protecting corporate data. But let’s look at the other side of security – privacy. Privacy […]
Posts Categorized: Choice
Privacy: My Expectations vs.. My Reality
I’m going to start this post with a famous quote from Wernher von Braun – you can recover from a production flaw but never from a design flaw. Right now there’s lots of activity in the Privacy space (note that I say activity vs. outcome). There’s an initiative by regulators to reign in what they […]
Privacy Must be a Choice. Managing Choice Must Be Simple.
The digital Privacy debate continues and the W3C are defining Do Not Track (DNT) standards right now. The goal is good, but I fear they are making things more complicated than they need to be. In an ideal world, users would have a choice over everything that gets shared and with whom it is shared. […]
Privacy: What “Do Not Track” really needs to make it enforceable (and verifiable) – HTTPS
In an earlier post – Privacy: X marks the spot where… I wrote about one of the problems with enforcing the Do Not Track header (the issue with caching servers and how do you enforce and verify the Do Not Track header was really sent?). So I thought I should offer a suggestion to improve […]
Digital Privacy Twister
Yes, Twister. The fun, bright colored game where you get twisted up with all your friends and would-be teenage loves. Actually, the rules of Twister are more clear than the twisted Privacy policies that dot the Web these days – which in my opinion, are less about privacy and more about making money. The […]