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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Regulations (21 Nov 2017)
HHS Smacks Heart Monitoring Firm with $2.5 Million Settlement
Federal regulators have smacked a mobile heart-monitoring technology firm with a $2.5 million HIPAA settlement related to findings from an investigation into a 2012 breach involving a stolen unencrypted laptop. What factors led to the substantial penalty?
Wonga data breach puts up to 245,000 UK current and former customers at risk
If Facebook Becomes The Internet's Authentication System, Can Citizen Scores Around The World Be Far Behind?
Pediatric Practice Reports Ransomware Attack
A Texas-based pediatric practice is the latest healthcare entity to report a major data breach following a recent ransomware attack, despite the organization's efforts to mitigate the incident quickly.
Privacy Camp 2017 in video
On 24 January, the fifth annual Privacy Camp, co-organised by EDRi, Privacy Salon, Université Saint-Louis (USL-B) and the interdisciplinary Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-LSTS) took place in Brussels.
Did you miss our #PrivacyCamp17: Controlling data, controlling machines? Now you can watch all the sessions or relive some of the precious moments of insightful debates.
Community building workshop: Societal impacts of big data and the role of civil society
Moderator:
Rocco Bellanova, University of Amsterdam and USL-B
Speakers:
Hans Lammerant, VUB and BYTE
Diego Naranjo, EDRi
Estelle Massé, AccessNow
Christian D’Cunha, EDPS
Link: https://youtu.be/QpXaW5Rcbgc
Owning the web together: Peer production and sharing
Moderator:
Seda Gürses, KULeuven
Speakers:
Ela Kagel, Supermarkt
Shermin Voshmgir, BlockchainHub
Tim Jordan, University of Sussex
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Z9ewyhI0A&t=19s
Instant big data targeting: Programmatic ad tech & beyond
Moderator:
Anna Fielder, Privacy International
Speakers:
Jeff Chester, Center for Digital Democracy
Wolfie Christl, Cracked Labs
Frederik Borgesius, University of Amsterdam
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge0Q1hlhUpI
The Internet of Things, security, and privacy
Moderator:
Sid Rao, Mozilla Advocacy Open Web Fellow at EDRi
Speakers:
Finn Myrstad, Norwegian Consumer Council
Katitza Rodriguez, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andreas Krisch, EDRi and Forum Datenschutz
Fieke Jansen, Tactical Tech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4VKJJUz2Yw
Surveillance tech export and human rights law
Moderator:
Lucie Krahulcova, AccessNow
Speakers:
Joshua Franco, Amnesty International and CAUSE
Renata Avila, World Wide Web Foundation and Courage Foundation
Walter van Holst, Vrijschrift
Ellen Desmet, UGent and HRI Network
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdDSoNYkOV4
Lightning talks:
Alexander Czadilek and Christof Tschohl, epicenter.works, Austria: Presentation of HEAT – Handbook for the Evaluation of Anti-Terrorism legislation
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_hG1iLBiQ&t=9s
Eva Lievens, Ghent University: Youth in the data deluge: How can the General Data Protection Regulation protect their privacy while fostering their autonomy
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJWbZFNKUZ0
Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon, Poland How to ensure a strong General Data Protection Regulation implementation
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnXVaK3cCvM
Kirsten Fiedler, EDRi: Presentation of Digital Defenders: privacy for kids comic booklet
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK9_mT51JJ4&t=3s
Arne Hintz, Cardiff University: Presentation of Data Justice Lab
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0Rs-2m6vo
Theresia Reinhold: Presentation of documentary Information. What are they looking at?
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j3tBG60GPI&t=48s
Ali Lange, Center for Democracy & Technology, USA: The right to explainability
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-ftqFuoJc&t=1s
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Risks Digest 29.54
Loughlin.onolanNSA 'untangling the web' looks like 600 pages of GOLD
Posted by RISKS List Owner on May 29
RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Sunday 29 May 2016 Volume 29 : Issue 54ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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Big Data (Don't panic but .. YOU'RE BEING WATCHED.) Aust TV explanation
Loughlin.onolanThis is a good, short intro to why privacy is important.
The economics of social networks: A talk about open and decentralized alternatives to Facebook
Victory: California Smartphone Anti-Encryption Bill Dies in Committee
The California Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection has scuttled A.B. 1681, the anti-smartphone encryption bill that EFF has been fighting against for the last few months. The bill was unable to get a second in committee, so it died without a formal vote.
A.B. 1681 was introduced in January of this year, and originally required that every smartphone sold in California have the technical ability to be decrypted and unlocked at the time of sale by the manufacturer or operating system provider. The bill was then amended to penalize companies that couldn’t decrypt the contents of a smartphone pursuant to a state court order.
The bill, both before and after it was amended, posed a serious threat to smartphone security. It would have forced companies to dedicate resources to finding ways to defeat their own encryption or insert backdoors to facilitate decryption. As a result, the bill would have essentially prohibited companies from offering full disk encryption for their phones.
Full disk encryption ensures that technology users can trust that their data is secure. It can help safeguard against identity thieves, malicious hackers, and others. It is particularly important when smartphones are lost or stolen, so that the sensitive data they store won’t be compromised.
Smartphone security is vital for victims of stalking and domestic violence. This is why the National Network to End Domestic Violence raised serious concerns about attempts to undermine device security, stating “Victim privacy is fundamental to victim safety, and the technologies survivors use should have the most security and encryption possible.”
EFF members, supporters, and friends rallied together to stop this bill, sending a clear message to the California legislature that we would not let the security of our digital lives be compromised. Defeating this bill is a major win for our community.
But even as we celebrate this victory in California, there are other ongoing battles over encryption. On the federal level, anti-security Senators are promoting a misguided proposal to undermine encryption while other elected officials are standing up for our digital privacy. The White House has failed to support any of these proposals, but also hasn’t yet taken the strong leadership we need on this issue. In New York and Louisiana, we’re fighting against bills very similar to A.B. 1681. And even the fight in California could return: the author of A.B. 1681, Assemblymember Jim Cooper, has vowed to try to pass this bill again next session.
If you value the security of your smartphone, please consider making a donation to EFF today to help us in this fight. And thank you to everyone who spoke out—we could not have done this without you. When the next battle of encryption comes, we hope you’ll stand with us again.