Posts tonen met het label google. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label google. Alle posts tonen

zondag 11 december 2011

On Privacy, Data Protection and Anonymity

The value of internet for the emancipation of peoples has reached a high water mark in 2011. Uprisings in North Africa have shown its value for the rest of Africa, the Middle and Far East. I was honoured by several invitations to join think tank discussions on enhancing and also appreciating the value that internet has. It brought me to considerations on the protection of people's privacy on-line. Privacy or anonymity?

woensdag 24 augustus 2011

How Data Protection Commissioners fight a lost, former war on Google Streetview


The privacy or data protection bodies in Europe and elsewhere are fighting Google for collecting WiFi router's addresses and names while taking Streetview pictures. They seem unable to see that Google does not need Streetview any more for this purpose.