My Digital FootPrint

Euro Security Experts Deem 'Right to be Forgotten' Impossible by  Justin Brookman December 4, 2012 Full version is here and worth reading: https://www.cdt.org/blogs/0412euro-security-experts-deem-right-be-forgotten-impossible ENISA comes to the same conclusion that we have: that a universal Right to be Forgotten is technically impossible on an open internet. It is simply not feasible to track down and erase all copies of factual information that had previously been made public. This is a welcome development, and hopefully will serve as a reality check against  magical thinking  that the Right to be Forgotten can easily be shoehorned onto the internet. ….. The Right to Erase Instead of a broad and impractical power to erase all iterations of controversial information, we’ve proposed instead that the Right to be Forgotten be reformulated as a more limited Right to Erase — if you choose to host or store data with a particular service provider (such as a cloud email service or a s

The Digital Universe is an EMC-sponsored study by IDC, measuring and characterizing all the digital data created, replicated, and consumed worldwide in a single year. The 2012 report projects the growth of the Digital Universe through 2020. http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/iview/index.htm or a summary is here http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2012/12/charting-the-digital-universe-idcs-6th-annual-study.html

Source: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/12/kidsapp.shtm Kids' Data Still Collected, Shared without Parents' Knowledge, Consent The Federal Trade Commission issued a new staff report, “ Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade ,”   examining the privacy disclosures and practices of apps offered for children in the Google Play and Apple App stores.  The report details the results of the FTC’s second survey of kids’ mobile apps.  Since  FTC staff’s first survey of kids’ mobile apps in 2011 , staff found little progress toward giving parents the information they need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is being shared, or who will have access to it.  The report also finds that many of the apps surveyed included interactive features, such as connecting to social media, and sent information from the mobile device to ad networks, analytics companies, or other third parties, without disclosing these practices to par

Source : http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2012/12/why-there-shouldnt-be-a-single-version-of-the-truth.html An interesting post from a long line of good posts from Chuck – and it hits home about leadership, management, learning and creation.  However, most companies are discovering that they need both old and new methods at the same time as old supports the cow (efficiency and effectiveness drivers) and new the stars (agile, flexible, bets efforts) . The bottom line is that CEO’s need new skills in how to manage both at the same time.

Source : http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2012/12/why-there-shouldnt-be-a-single-version-of-the-truth.html An interesting post from a long line of good posts from Chuck – and it hits home about leadership, management, learning and creation. However, most companies are discovering that they need both old and new methods at the same time as old supports the cow (efficiency and effectiveness drivers) and new the stars (agile, flexible, bets efforts) . The bottom line is that CEO’s need new skills in how to manage both at the same time.

Source : http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/people-arent-conflicted-about-privacy-they-just-appear-that-way/ This is a cut and paste of the intro - you need to read the full article on Simon’s blog People often ask me to explain why privacy seems such a incongruous concept. Why is it that people who proclaim to love privacy will sometimes cheerfully give it away? Why do some people who oppose ID cards because they are instruments of government intrusion, contemporaneously support national security powers that are an embodiment of government intrusion? I’ll make an attempt to explain – and please forgive me if this starts off a little simplistically. It’s a surprisingly complex question and I want to tread cautiously. The family is an ideal microcosm to begin exploring the dynamics. Imagine the family unit as a miniature nation state. The parents have a protective role, and the children – while dependant – assert certain rights and freedoms. The equation between the two is deli

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/code-eu-online-rights As part of the Digital Agenda for Europe actions, the Code of EU online rights compiles the basic set of rights existing in EU legislation and related to the digital environment. The objective of the Code is to find simple explanations of their legal rights and obligations, set out in a transparent and understandable way. As foreseen in the Digital Agenda for Europe, this list of online rights and principles will be an important tool for inspiring trust and confidence among consumers and contribute to promote greater use of online services. These basic rights protect citizens and consumers for instance when using online services, buying goods online, and in case of conflict with their providers of these services. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/Code%20EU%20online%20rights%20EN%20final%202.pdf Personal Comment : just concerns me about who is managing the balance between real benefit for