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June 30, 2010
Myths and Fallacies of “Personally Identifiable Information”. Developing effective privacy protection technologies is a critical challenge for security and privacy research as the amount and variety of data collected about individuals increase exponentially. [Link]
June 05, 2010
Privacy, Facebook's challenge. Users must have tools to protect their privacy on the Internet. Esther Mitjans i Perelló, Director of the Catalan Data Protection Agency (Apdcat) [Link]
June 03, 2010
Are we entitled to digital oblivion? The allegations by the use of personal data, especially in the network, grew 75% [Link]
June 02, 2010
Two Spanish companies launch a global alert service and Internet parental control. Lleida.net and Danba allow to contract SMS alerts about the minor navigation [Link]
June 01, 2010
Google improves the privacy of its browser. Users can now search using the encryption process of online banking. [Link]
May 20, 2010
European offensive against Google for stealing their data with Street View. The data protection agencies from Spain, Germany, France and Italy suspect that the privacy breach [Link]
May 13, 2010
Miguel Soriano: 'Internet voting on the Diagonal would be invalid in elections'. The professor of the UPC, one of the three auditors in the query, tells VilaWeb they opted for a less secure system to have more participation. [Link]
April 30, 2010
Germany threatens Google over Street View. Germany says it's considering legal moves to stop Google from offering its 'street view' service in Germany. The country's consumer protection minister has warned of a 'millionfold violation of privacy rights.' [link]
March 02, 2010
The Catalan newspaper Avui publishes the piece of news "Biometric identification: use and abuse", about the dangers of using identification through physical features, written by Josep Domingo. [Link]
August 07, 2009
A divulgative article about Josep Maria Gastó Heras' experience with Catsalut has been published in the electronic magazine datospersonales.org, a magazine from Madrid's Data Protection Agency. [Link]
May 31, 2009
Warning from the Catalan Data Protection Agency: users of social
networks lose 70% of their privacy. [Link]
May 29, 2009
President Obama will appoint a new cybersecurity czar and says
he/she will not violate privacy and civil liberties of Americans. [Link]
March 14, 2009
Towards a new internet. Engineers and security experts know that privacy and security on the internet are so difficult to achieve that the only way to solve the problem is to start again (ElPaís.com)
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March 12, 2009
Google will offer advertising depending on the behavior of the users. The seeker will store in its database information about what is visited, when and why (ElPaís.com) [Link]
March 11, 2009
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee wants ban on snooping on internet users. Sir Tim Berners-Lee says internet information should not be harvested (Times online) [Link]
