EU Commission has set an Advisory Panel to revise EU Data Protection Directive

marcocasassamont — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:04:00 GMT

As highlighted in this article, you might be interest in knowing that the European Commission has set an Advisory Panel, including executives from Google and Intel, to help revising the European Union laws on Data Protection:

"The aim of the group is to identify issues and challenges raised by new technologies. We are not reviewing the main data protection laws at present, but this could be a first step," said European Commission spokesman Michele Cercone. He added that the executives were chosen in a private capacity, rather than as representatives of their companies."

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Top 5 Mistakes of Privacy Awareness Programs?

marcocasassamont — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:13:00 GMT

Jay Cline, in an interesting article called "Opinion: Top 5 Mistakes of Privacy Awareness Programs", lists the top five shortcuts that many large corporations take when dealing with privacy awareness programs:

Doing separate training for privacy, security, records management and code of ethics
Equating "campaign" with "program"
Equating "awareness" with "training"
Using one or two communications channels
No measurement

Have a look.

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Research on Security and Identity Management (by Marco Casassa Mont) : privacy awareness

EU Commission has set an Advisory Panel to revise EU Data Protection Directive

Top 5 Mistakes of Privacy Awareness Programs?