RFIDNews | What is Privacy?

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Individuals are the subjects of accelerating commercial data collection. When two parties transact, a record of the meeting is formed. Technology allows broad aggregation of these occurrences. An individual’s interest in controlling this information leads to an interest in preventing his own identification (by others). Thus to limit information existing outside of an individual’s domain of control, he must remain anonymous. Our hope to remain anonymous is our expectation of privacy—what cryptographer Eric Hughes defined as “the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.”

There are 895 words in the rest of this article …

Library Access Required

Library subscribers have access to the full archives of more than 10,000 original news items and feature articles published by AVISIAN’s suite of ID technology publications (ContactlessNews.com, CR80News.com, DigitalIDNews.com, FIPS201.com, NFCNews.com, RFIDNews.org, SecureIDNews.com, and ThirdFactor.com).

For just $49, you receive unlimited password-protected access to content on all of AVISIAN’s sites for an entire year. Your subscription helps fund the continued creation of independent, insightful content. Find out more.

Sign in as a Subscriber

If you are already a subscriber, you may sign in now. Enter your Email Address and Password and click Sign In.

If you have forgotten your password, enter just your Email Address, and click Send Password.

Privacy: Protecting personal details

Jerome Becquart, Chair of the GlobalPlatform Government Task Force, and Eric Le Saint, Chair of the GlobalPlatform Systems Committee

With more and more transaction and interaction becoming electronic, privacy concerns are on the increase. This is especially true in the context of government-to-citizen and government-to-employee transactions.

Biometrics Institute announces release of privacy charter

The Biometrics Institute, a biometrics industry organization engaged in the research, analysis and education of biometric technologies, announced the release of a privacy charter for early, according to a CIO article.

FTC wants comments on facial recognition

Federal Trade Commission staff is seeking public comments on the issues raised at a FTC workshop exploring facial recognition technology and the privacy and security implications raised by its increasing use.

Concerns mount over new Canadian biometric programs

Privacy advocates in Canada have been raising concerns over the risk involved in two new biometric programs from the government that result in the sharing of private biometric data with other countries’ governments and possibly private corporations, according to an Embassy Magazine article.

NIST seeks proposals for NSTIC pilots

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a competition to award a approximately $10 million for pilot projects to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, trusted online credentials that go beyond simple user IDs and passwords.

EAB looks to drive the biometric market place

The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection.

Subscribe

Print Magazine

Featured Events

Links

Searching …

What is Privacy?

Library Access Required

Sign in as a Subscriber