Senate Hears Testimony on Broadband Consumer Privacy: related news

Senate Hears Testimony on Broadband Consumer Privacy

Executives from AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and a consumer group known as Public Knowledge testified before the U.S. Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on the subject of broadband consumer privacy. Some highlights:

International Privacy Initiatives Sweep Industry Privacy Competition

ORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- International privacy leadership projects swept the 6th annual HP-International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Innovation Awards. Winners representing three continents were announced today at the IAPP Privacy Academy in Orlando, Fla. The three areas recognized for significant innovation include organization privacy awareness, consumer privacy education and identity management.

Home broadband Still Twice as Fast as Mobile Broadband

The difference between mobile broadband and fixed broadband speeds is growing according to new research by broadband comparison site, Broadband-Expert. Fixed broadband services are now, on average, twice as fast as mobile broadband.

Home broadband more than twice as fast as mobile broadband

The difference between mobile broadband and fixed broadband speeds is growing according to new research by broadband comparison site Broadband Expert. Fixed broadband services are now, on average, twice as fast as mobile broadband.

The Privacy Council Launches: 'Together We Can End SPAM, Junk Mail and Unsolicited Phone Calls'

The formation of a Global Privacy Council designed to set firm standards around online privacy has been announced today. In addition to bringing together industry leaders to protect personal privacy on the Internet, The Privacy Council provides a low-cost service for individuals who wish to be removed from the major junk mail, telemarketer and SPAM email lists. The Privacy Council's website also publishes regularly updated articles about the latest personal privacy and security issues.

Consumer Reports Unveils New Application For iPhone And iPod Touch

New App Helps Users with New Tech Gadgets Make Better Purchasing Decisions YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Consumer Reports released a new application for iPhone and iPod Touch users today. Available for free at iTunes, the ConsumerReports.org application features expert tips and buying advice aimed at helping shoppers make better purchasing decisions. Once downloaded onto an iPhone or iPod Touch, consumers will have instant access to consumer news, advice, and best buy information from the testers and editors at Consumer Reports. ConsumerReports.org for the iPhone and iPod Touch provides the latest news from the Consumer Reports' blogs in the following consumer product areas:

Directive proposed to enhance uniformity of consumer contractual rights both for online and more traditional shopping

On 8 October 2008, the Commission launched a proposal for a Directive on consumer contractual rights. The proposal comes about as a result of the Commission's review of the EU's "Consumer Acquis", i.e., the body of consumer law at EU level. The review concluded that there is a fragmented regulatory framework of consumer protection rules operating in the EU, and therefore a need for greater harmonisation. The proposed Directive (COM(2008)614), while certainly applicable to ordinary high street shopping for all kinds of consumer goods, also aims to give EU citizens more confidence to shop over the internet. Hong Kong sellers will therefore be directly affected by the proposed provisions, once they enter into effect in the Member States.

Privacy officers to feel the brunt of privacy law changes

Opinion: Dynamic contrast ratio is the new evil in displays Australia's "first" LED TV launched by Samsung iPhone startup brings fuel price app to Australia Fujitsu may abandon hard drive market Telstra tells Rudd: We need high-speed broadband Privacy officers to feel the brunt of privacy law changes Apathy, security and fear hinder social media, study finds Quantum leap for photonic modulation Nokia CEO wowed by iPhone, sights on BlackBerry IBM adds shared storage to BladeCenter Mobiles get enterprise-grade remote control Hollywood sues RealNetworks over DVD copying software Computer game industry safe from economic downturn Amazon announces Windows cloud computing Apple releases developers from NDA

User Privacy is Top Priority, Broadband Providers Vow

The nation's largest broadband providers hope industry guidelines calling for consumer opt-in regimes will stave off new Internet privacy laws. AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner deny using deep packet inspection.

On Privacy Preservation Against Adversarial Data Mining

Privacy preserving data processing has become an important topic recently because of advances in hardware technology which have lead to widespread proliferation of demographic and sensitive data. A rudimentary way to preserve privacy is to simply hide the information in some of the sensitive fields picked by a user. However, such a method is far from satisfactory in its ability to prevent adversarial data mining. Real data records are not randomly distributed. As a result, some fields in the records may be correlated with one another. This paper studies the problem of privacy preservation against adversarial data mining, which is to hide a minimal set of entries so that the privacy of the sensitive fields are satisfactorily preserved.

Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization's IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your SAP environment is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next privacy breach headline.

Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization's IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your SAP environment is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next privacy breach headline.

Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization's IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your SAP environment is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next privacy breach headline.

ID2008: Privacy & Identity Theft ConferenceNovember 24-25, 2008

The Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) is pleased to present our 10th conference on Privacy and related issues on November 24-25, 2008. This year’s conference is focused on the relationship between privacy, trust and identity theft. We have long considered identity fraud to be one of the most visible and serious types of privacy breach. It is a problem that is afflicting more people every day and is suppressing the growth of personal communication and commerce.

Privacy Groups Want Info from Google on Flu Trends

Google's recent announcement that it may have found a way to predict U.S. flu trends has led to the inevitable expressions of concern from some privacy groups. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Patient Privacy Rights sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying if the records are "disclosed and linked to a particular user, there could be adverse consequences for education, employment, insurance, and even travel." It asks for more disclosure about how Google Flu Trends protects privacy.

Read the article: CNET News.com

The Cost of Privacy: Destruction of Data-Mining Utility in Anonymized Data Publishing

Re-identification is a major privacy threat to public datasets containing individual records. Many privacy protection algorithms rely on generalization and suppression of "Quasi-identifier" attributes such as ZIP code and birthdate. This paper asks whether generalization and suppression of quasi-identifiers offer any benefits over trivial sanitization which simply separates quasi-identifiers from sensitive attributes. Previous work showed that k-anonymous databases can be useful for data mining, but k-anonymization does not guarantee any privacy. By contrast, they measure the tradeoff between privacy (how much can the adversary learn from the sanitized records?) and utility, measured as accuracy of data-mining algorithms executed on the same sanitized records.

IBM Bringing Powerline Broadband Back?

KindMind writes "IBM, in partnership with International Broadband Electric Communications, appears to be bringing back powerline broadband back from the dead. This time, the idea is to build out in rural areas not currently serviced by broadband, and isn't for competing with other broadband solutions. From the article: 'Their strategy is to sign up electric cooperatives that provide power to sparsely populated areas across the eastern United States. Rather than compete toe-to-toe with large, entrenched cable or DSL providers, IBEC is looking for customers that have been largely left out of the shift to high-speed Internet.'"

Closing the Data Privacy Gap for SAP® Applications

Protecting sensitive information and ensuring data privacy have become high priorities. News headlines about the increasing frequency of stolen information and identity theft have focused awareness on privacy breaches and their consequences. In responding to these issues, data privacy regulations have been enacted around the world. Failure to ensure data privacy compliance can result in millions of dollars in financial penalties and jail time. Companies also risk losing customer loyalty and destroying brand equity. The impact is serious enough to put a company out of business.

Closing the Data Privacy Gap for SAP Applications

Protecting sensitive information and ensuring data privacy have become high priorities. News headlines about the increasing frequency of stolen information and identity theft have focused awareness on privacy breaches and their consequences. In responding to these issues, data privacy regulations have been enacted around the world. Failure to ensure data privacy compliance can result in millions of dollars in financial penalties and jail time. Companies also risk losing customer loyalty and destroying brand equity. The impact is serious enough to put a company out of business.

Closing the Data Privacy Gap for SAP Applications

Protecting sensitive information and ensuring data privacy have become high priorities. News headlines about the increasing frequency of stolen information and identity theft have focused awareness on privacy breaches and their consequences. In responding to these issues, data privacy regulations have been enacted around the world. Failure to ensure data privacy compliance can result in millions of dollars in financial penalties and jail time. Companies also risk losing customer loyalty and destroying brand equity. The impact is serious enough to put a company out of business.

Congress Warned of Google Privacy & Security Risks...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- Consumer Watchdog released a new on-line video exposing privacy problems with Google’s Gmail service and other Google applications in the wake of Google’s recent marketing efforts on Capitol Hill. At a speech in Washington D.C. today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged the group’s privacy concerns and expressed an interest in addressing them. He said his concern was balancing performance and speed of the system with privacy and security demands.

Deutsche Telekom to Establish New Data Privacy Standards

Deutsche Telekom affirmed its intention to significantly improve data privacy in the interest of its customers by increasing transparency and optimizing data privacy standards. A new Data Privacy Board department will be established to send out a clear signal in terms of the significance of data protection in today’s information society. To this end, data privacy, legal affairs and compliance are to be combined and significantly reinforced as one area of responsibility.

The (ongoing) challenges for electronic privacy

Hydrasight notes renewed vendor and media hype in regard to the potential role of technology in the context of securing the privacy of individuals and so-called 'privacy breaches'. However, we believe that the issue of privacy cannot be addressed by the IT organisation (ITO) to any great extent. Hydrasight believes privacy remains a societal issue requiring greater focus on policy and business process than on technology.

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