Kristian J. Hammond wrote an interesting piece on the real value of big data in the Harvard Business Review blog: “It is clear that a new age is upon us. Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data) is not just the latest fad, it’s the future of how we are going to guide and grow business. But […]
Thanks to the Digital Commons Network, all of you pdpechoers have free access to these new papers: E-mail in the Workplace and the Right of Privacy Kevin J. Baum Keeping the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo Debate Tim Wu Columbia Law School, Christopher Yoo Vanderbilt University Law School A Soldier’s Blog: Balancing Service Members’ Personal […]
Wired published today one of those stories that make me flinch for a couple of seconds and wonder where is technology going to stop, which is its final purpose and does it really have such a purpose? Apparently, according to Wired, cops and soldiers may soon be able to pull out their iPhones to track […]
According to thetelegraph.co.uk, the EU council’s so-called ‘Coreper’ committee backed Commission plans to open up public sector information such as geographical data and statistics to be re-used for any purpose across Europe. European leaders hope this will inject a much needed €40bn into the crisis-hit Eurozone as business and developers can use the data at a […]
Computerworlduk.com wrote about private clouds and how they are not exactly … clouds. If an enterprise data centre has a highly virtualised environment, a web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method for tracking how many of those resources are being used… that’s not quite a private cloud. If there […]
Commissioner Viviane Reding intervened in the Justice Council on March 8, 2013, on matters related to the adoption of the Data Protection Regulations. She referred among other things to the issue of pseudonymous data, saying that incentives should be created for companies to use such data instead of the names of the data subject. Nevertheless, […]
Insidecostarica.com informs that Costa Rica now has its own laws on the storing, sharing, and access of personal information, after Law #8968 was published in the official Gazette last Tuesday. Under the law, individuals must now provide their express consent for the collection of their personal information in databases, and individuals will have the right to revoke that […]
“Purpose limitation”, explained by the Article 29 WP