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Privacy In the Cloud: Show Me The Money

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2008-10-12 23:49:41 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
Privacy is a lot like universal healthcare. Many agree its a good idea in concept, but few people want to pay for it Richard Stallman - the man that gave us GNU - doesnt trust Cloud providers with his data and says you shouldnt either. Richard believes we should store our private data on our own computers using free (as in freedom ) software....
 
Tags: cloud, cloud providers, trust cloud providers, privacy, cloud providers actions, cloud applications, privacy costs money, privacy assurance levels, privacy assurance
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
If there's a debate that sums up post-9/11 politics, it's security versus privacy. Which is more important? How much privacy are you willing to give up for security? Can we even afford privacy in this age of insecurity? Security versus privacy: It's the battle of the century, or at least its first decade In a Jan. 21 New Yorker article, Director...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater
 
 
 
 
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Civilians Ask Whats With All the Privacy Act Kerfluffle?

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2008-06-26 21:51:41 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
And by kerfluffle, I mean these articles GAOPrivacy Report Technology Liberation Front Center for Democracy and Technology And how about an analysis of the Privacy Act from DOJ for background reasons Well, lets talk about how privacy and the Government works with Uncle Rybolov (please hold the references to Old Weird Uncle Harold until were...
 
Tags: privacy act, privacy act procedures, privacy act deals, privacy act data, privacy, data, data lies, privacy act talks, privacy policy
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Policies Best Practices

2008-03-28 08:19:18 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
Here at Forrester I get a number of questions about how companies should write their privacy policies and I wanted to share some of the top tips with you. You have probably come across some illegible privacy policies if you've ever stopped to read them. They are pages and pages long and finding the information you actually want is difficult if...
 
Tags: main privacy policy, privacy policy, policy, privacy policies, level policy, policy apply, apply, illegible privacy policies, potential customer
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Policies: Perception vs. Reality

2008-09-04 13:15:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
New paper: "What Californians Understand About Privacy Online," by Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Jennifer King. From the abstract : A gulf exists between California consumers' understanding of online rules and common business practices. For instance, Californians who shop online believe that privacy policies prohibit third-party information sharing. A...
 
Tags: california consumers overvalue, consumers, california consumers, privacy policy, consumers interpret, website, privacy policies, website operators, delete personal information
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Privacy Issues

2008-01-07 02:05:44 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
This actually comes a few months late, but Ive read enough about it that I think its worth talking about. Theres an article on the Silicon Insider talking about the newest integration between Facebook and Blockbuster, Fandago and others. Had I not already heard all the details and fallout I probably would have said, Sounds like a complicated...
 
Tags: facebook, privacy, friends facebook profile, peoples privacy, friends, people, privacy issue, silicon insider article, article
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
I personally love Google and have since the first search I made 7+ years ago. I remember it clearly, I was at my first dot com gig and I made a search for some obscure technical detail. I was shocked that the first result took me to what I was looking for, and it has been my homepage ever since Unfortunately Ive had to turn a blind eye to the...
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
When I write and speak about privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual disclosure argument. Explained in books like David Brin's The Transparent Society , the argument goes something like this: In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, you'll know all about me, but I will also know all about you. The government will be watching us, but...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Workshop - Papers Released

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2008-05-26 08:23:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Last week, the 2008's W2Sp workshop held in Oakland, California and sponsored by the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy , made available all the papers from the workshop, including catchy titles such as input type="password" must die Web Authentication by Email Address Beware of Finer-Grained Origins On the Design of a Web Browser: Lessons...
 
Tags: privacy, workshop, privacy protection, privacy propagation, social networks, social, w2sp workshop held, social web, ubiquitous web services
 
 
 
 
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Benefit of Security and Privacy Collaboration

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2007-10-25 22:39:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
This week, Microsoft Executives Ben Fathi and Scott Charney gave respective keynotes at RSA Europe (in London) and the IAPP (international association of privacy professionals) Academy 2007 . More details here I was at RSA Europe and saw Ben give his keynote and one of the findings from recent Poneman Institute study was really interesting to...
 
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