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Designing Software With Privacy in Mind

Posted by Zonk on from the should-be-high-on-the-list dept.

dalektcalum writes "Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Canada's Information and Privacy Commissioner, recently gave a talk entitled Privacy by Design. The talk starts off by covering the basics of privacy, and privacy law, and then moves onto the important component: how to design software that properly protects users privacy. The majority of the talk is spent on design principles, but also examines specific technologies (such as Elliptical Curve Cryptography)." The site includes a flash video of the talk, but there are also several torrents for folks who want to avoid hammering their servers.

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  1. databases are risks by erlehmann · · Score: 2, Informative

    somehow it's simple: when government or bigbiz collects information about you, this information is stored in databases. from these information, conclusions are drawn. the simplest thing is that a health insurance won't accept you b/c you are genetically inferior. but, speaking of government, one german citizen was abducted by the CIA [1], another man was wrongfully imprisoned in guantanamo for 5 years [2].

    this happened due to some entries in some databases about them hanging around with the wrong people.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
    [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz

  2. Small Correction by sdt · · Score: 2, Informative

    She's not Canada's privacy commissioner, she's Ontario's (a province of Canada) Information and Privacy Commissioner.