Stanford CIS

Securing Privacy: Approaches to Reform

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Michael Froomkin - National ID cards. The big question is what to store in them, what they give access to. Are they enemies of privacy.  Would it be better that everybody had an ID card, so regulation would be unique? Ordinary people would have privacy-miopy, they usually don’t care giving out information to buy certain things.

A problem that arises is misuse of the DB by the government, does the ID card motivate this?

Lance Hoffman – An architecture to allow metadata driven legal and economic controls in  privacy sensitive systems.

Dangers: Tracking devices, safe?

After 9/11 it is difficult to think of absolute privacy, Very general approach to the problems that actually exist. States that auditing should be a good solution

Ian Ballon – Litigation trends and developments. The coming wave of security litigation. He focuses in where he thinks litigation is going to go.
Compares actual situation with 1995 situation.
Big list of litigations concerning the subject.
Addresses the problem of Online contract formation.
Absence of standards make litigation and inevitable problem,

Connecting the dots, is it legal? Should it be?
What happens if we build a DB and in some time rules change, ie law says everyone can have access to the DB.

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