Yesterday, on April 1st 2012, the European Union’s “Directive 2006/24/EC” (also known as the “Data Retention Directive”) entered into force in Austria. Under this directive, telecommunication providers are obliged to store information about phone calls, text messages and Internet communication for a period of 6 to 24 months. This information does not include the actual […]
Report on the Internet Privacy Workshop
22 February 2012 by
Report text is at: www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6462.txt The report from the event was released at the end of January 2012; the event was December 8–9, 2010: the IETF’s Internet Architecture Board (IAB) co-hosted an Internet privacy workshop with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet Society (ISOC), and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). […]
Austrian students report Facebook to Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner
7 September 2011 by
A move by a group around Vienna-based law student Max Schrems has set in motion a process which has now resulted in a formal privacy investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) against Facebook. The group of students explains that due to the legal structure of Facebook, any user outside of the U.S. and […]
Declarative References to Data
20 August 2010 by
The following blog post by Phil Windley of Kynetx describes the concept of declarative references to data:
http://www.windley.com/archives/2010/08/beyond_apis_declarative_references_to_data.shtml
Basically, the idea is that with XRI and XDI, it is poss…