[via Office of the Privacy Commissioner]
Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, recently spoke to the Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo. (video available in several formats) … and her speech is receiving favourable attention online …
I highly recommend watching Dr. Cavoukian’s speech in our post-9/11 world. Especially in light of what I read from a friend’s posting, which is not uncommon thinking these days,
“So, let’s all just take a deep breath and say “Privacy is dead.” So if you don’t want the world to know that you did something – just don’t do it in the first place.“
We should not give up our privacy easily without some proper understanding of what some of the potential solutions are. And definitely not without a fight.
Discussed concepts/tools/sites:
- Off The Record Messaging
- Elliptic curve cryptography (note: highly technical) – great application for small mobile device (far more security per bit)
- IBM Clipped RFID Tag – reduced item-level RFID read range to inches
- Biometric Encryption – a technical paper in PDF format
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