Digital Privacy is a big deal and with the US elections behind us, we can get on with the business at hand – finalizing standards and regulation (or the enforcement thereof) that protect our basic rights to know who is collecting and using our data, how it’s being used AND having greater choice over who […]
Posts Categorized: #privacy
Google joins the Do Not Track Party
Just downloaded the latest version of Chrome and it’s official – Do Not Track is now a Privacy setting. Although you might want to read the disclaimer that shows up when you check the box.
The DNT Rope-a-Dope
Even us folks that don’t follow boxing know the infamous rope-a-dope. Show them one thing and then deliver another. The classic, you never saw it coming. So what does this have to do with Do Not Track? In theory, the DNT effort of the W3C is about defining the technical standards to support the ability […]
A Fool in search of Privacy
As I watch with great interest in what can only be called the ‘Shenanigans’, taking place at the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, my mind is drawn to Wikipedia’s description of the Fool (link) In various tarot card games he has a unique role – (and I quote)… ‘In these games, the Fool is sometimes […]
Privacy and the Human in the Loop
When considering any system sometimes we forget that there’s a ‘Human in the Loop’. I’ve just finished reading a great white paper by Lori Cranor (A Framework for Reasoning About the Human in the Loop), and whilst this paper talks about security, it’s kissing cousin is Privacy. So a lot of the ideas presented here […]