Here’s a one-hour video of a magnificent lecture from Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr Ann Cavoukian, to the University of Waterloo’s Computer Science Club. The talk is called “Privacy by Design,” and it charges technologists to build tools that minimize the collection and retention of personally identifying information, and to consider a complete, end-to-end, comprehensive framework for protecting user privacy.
As Mitch Kapor said when he founded EFF, “architecture is politics” — when you design tools that have wiretappable elements, you invite wiretapping. When you design tools that retain user data, you invite identity thieves and overreaching subpoenas.
More: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/07/canadas-privacy-comm.html
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