July 5, 2013

Friday Links and News: The Biometric Database, Photo Stream Analysis, DNT and the Mother of all Demos.

Several days before the Israeli biometric ID pilot starts, a security evaluation document reveals major flaws in the way the smart IDs are created and managed. The document was created by the…

Why the Law cannot understand Facebook? And can we design privacy beyond the middle class

In the fascinating New Yorker article, “The Prism”, Jill Lepore chronicles the history of privacy through time, trying to solve some mysteries, such as why many organizations that promote…