Archives for June 2011

PDEC presents at NSTIC Privacy Workshop

Kaliya Hamlin, Executive Director of PDEC presented at the two day NSTIC (National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace) Privacy Workshop June 27-28th in Boston at MIT’s Media Lab.  Agenda Here. A focus of her talk was be the PDEC Startup Circle and market based solutions for individual privacy. Personal Data Ecosystem – NSTIC Privacy […]

Seth Godin is for Personal Control of Personal Data

Yesterday morning a friend sent along a link to Seth Godin’s blog post Show me the (meta) data. Seth says: We need software on our phones that can remember where we go and what we do, software for our browsers that can create profiles that save us time and money, and most of all, software for […]

Considering digital footprint within wider interdependencies: access, control, store, attributes and rights..

The definition of digital footprint DATA in the following blog is used with the most all embracing and generic meaning of data which includes all raw data (collected, implicit, implied, passive or active collection); meta-data (data that …

Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont Prescriber Privacy Law

On June 23, 2011, in a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in IMS Health Inc. v. Sorrell that a Vermont law prohibiting the sale of prescriber-identifiable data to drug companies was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment …