Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said Thursday that wireless operators should require their customers to use a password to access the voicemail on their mobile phones. The problem for Leibowitz, as he was quick to note, is that his agenc…
Two-thirds of Consumers Say Government Should Help Safeguard Online Privacy
29 June 2011 by
A May poll conducted by Consumer Reports shows that two-thirds of consumers feel that the government should be involved with safeguarding their online privacy, while 81 percent of respondents agreed that they should be able to permanently opt out of In…
New paper on Wi-Fi positioning systems
28 June 2011 by
Regular readers will have come across (or participated in shaping) some of my work over the last year as I looked at the different ways that device identity and personal identity collide in mobile location technology.
In the early days following Google…
Avoid Unintended Consequences: Engage Privacy by Design
23 June 2011 by
A presentation by Commissioner Cavoukian at Research in Motion on how privacy is a business issue as much as it is a compliance issue and how Privacy by Design allows organizations to gain a competitive advantage.