Re: [liberationtech] CORRECTION: European privacy regulators' excellent paper on Anonymisation Techniques

2014-04-17 Thread Shava Nerad
Do they have teeth to enforce that, Caspar?  The political will, do you
think?

Or is this just PRIME-ing the pump with slick language, to stir up the
waters? ;)

Shava Nerad
Privacy Evangelist,
Blackphone/SGP Technologies
On Apr 16, 2014 7:18 PM, Caspar Bowden (lists) li...@casparbowden.net
wrote:

  Please disregard previous, main highlighted link got mangled
 =

 It's been a remarkable few days for the Committee of European privacy
 regulators (the Art.29 Working Party)

 In their first opinion on Data Protection law and national 
 securityhttp://t.co/itKVGpDI1L,
 they grudgingly sort of admit it is their job to stop NSA spying, but then
 the next day they approve contracts for PRISM's first corporate 
 partnerhttps://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/456366945512599552for Cloud 
 processing (although they aren't
 really a mere processor at 
 allhttps://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/456413628392939520
 )

 ..and today they issued the highest quality paper I have ever read from
 them - No.216, on Anonymisation Techniques

 Storified version *here
 https://storify.com/CasparBowden/art-29-wp-opinion-216-on-anonymisation-techniques*for
  gist, full text (37 pages) in first tweet

 If anyone knows of a regulatory text that comes close on this topic, would
 like to know...

 The relevance to LiberationTech is that if they enforce this, then a whole
 bunch of worries about commercial and state spying through BigData will go
 away, in Europe at least

 Caspar

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[liberationtech] CORRECTION: European privacy regulators' excellent paper on Anonymisation Techniques

2014-04-16 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)

Please disregard previous, main highlighted link got mangled
=

It's been a remarkable few days for the Committee of European privacy 
regulators (the Art.29 Working Party)


In their first opinion on Data Protection law and national security 
http://t.co/itKVGpDI1L, they grudgingly sort of admit it is their job 
to stop NSA spying, but then the next day they approve contracts for 
PRISM's first corporate partner 
https://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/456366945512599552 for Cloud 
processing (although they aren't really a mere processor at all 
https://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/456413628392939520)


..and today they issued the highest quality paper I have ever read from 
them - No.216, on Anonymisation Techniques


Storified version *here 
https://storify.com/CasparBowden/art-29-wp-opinion-216-on-anonymisation-techniques* 
for gist, full text (37 pages) in first tweet


If anyone knows of a regulatory text that comes close on this topic, 
would like to know...


The relevance to LiberationTech is that if they enforce this, then a 
whole bunch of worries about commercial and state spying through BigData 
will go away, in Europe at least


Caspar
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