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Data Protection Day 2009
In early December I blogged about the Privacy Video Competition of the Data Protection Day. Today is the day: The winners just were announced. If you want to look at the videos (they are actually pretty cool): Watch all entries: http://eskills.eun.org/web/dprotection/gallery Read More...
Privacy Video Competition
On January 28th the European Union is holding the Data Protection Day . To prepare for that, they are holding a competition for young people from 15 to 19 to express their views about online privacy. Here is the teaser: Surf the net – Think privacy! So, Read More...
Important Privacy Announcement
I  wanted to make you aware of a very important announcement we made earlier today. As you know, Trustworthy Computing is all about Security,  Reliability and Business Practices. Our house has a fourth pillar -  Privacy - which we view Read More...
Posted 09 December 08 07:54 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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Security and Piracy – a Correlation?
I am working on a blog post on Security and Piracy looking into the data I have available. Probably it will be ready next week but what I wanted to know: Is there anybody who did some research about this already? I would appreciate if you could let me Read More...
Posted 07 December 08 09:37 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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How to circumvent Privacy Laws
As you all know, most jurisdictions allow individuals to ask for data collected by an organization (being it a company or a governmental organization). A lot of countries have Data Protection Commissioners that look into what companies and more often Read More...
Microsoft sponsors Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards
It is not really news anymore as it broke during my vacation. However, it is important from my point of view: We are a proud sponsor (and not for the first time) of the Privacy Enhancing Technology Awards, which recognizes the work of researchers in the Read More...
Posted 05 August 08 12:15 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!! – Part 2
Quite some of you read my initial post on that – and I like the comments I got. Now, it seems that I am not the only one being angry: I quote from What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates For the record, I think Apple is dead wrong in the Read More...
Posted 25 March 08 04:28 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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New Privacy-Technology enables new (private) Business Models
We announced it recently: Be acquired the U-Prove technology by a company called Credentica and quite some key members of Credentica have joined us. When we announced it, my excitement was – well – limited. It was another company we bought. But when I Read More...

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