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UK Poll on ID-Cards

Privacy International has published a public opinion survey (PDF-File) on the proposed National ID Card in the UK. The representative Poll contains some interes…

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Mapping the Information Environment PDF

“Mapping the Information Environment: Legal Aspects of Modularization and Digitalization,” Dan Wielsch's new article in the Yale Journal of Law & Techno…

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The Next Nobel in Economics

My friend Jack Ayer points me to one site where folks are voting for their favored economist for the big prize.  Paul Krugman is at the top, but that's prob…

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Beyond "Goodnight Moon"

What are your favorite toddler picture books?  I like "Good night, Gorilla," written and illustrated by Peggy Rathmann (1994) (a nice coincidence, &qu…

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NY Times Drumbeat on the March to War

The Times confesses serious errors in its reporting on alleged WMD in Iraq in the run-up to invasion.  Unfortunately, it is the Washington Post which is more ho…

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Mapping the Information Environment

At the end every question concerning the information habitats may indeed boil down to a decision between freedom v. control. The legitimate function of this har…

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Haldar, Semantic Remote Attestation

Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra & Michael Franz, Semantic Remote Attestation - A Virtual Machine directed approach to Trusted Computing, in: Proceedings of the…

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Camenish, Better Privacy

Jan Camenish, Better Privacy for Trusted Computing Platforms, in: Samarati (ed.), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2004, Lecture Notes in Com…

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Faking Sovereignty

President Bush repeated his commitment to transfer "full sovereignty" to the people of Iraq on July 1.  At the same time, he stated that American mili…

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Erasing Abu Ghraib

President Bush promised to destroy Abu Ghraib, the symbol, in his words, of "death and torture" under Hussein, and "disgraceful conduct" und…