IAPP Privacy Academy
Posted by Lance Koonce
Today was the first full day of the IAPP's Privacy Academy 2005 here in Las Vegas (actually, it's in Henderson, but let's not split hairs). The keynote addresses were given by author David Brin, IBM scientist Jeff Jonas, and Jim Harper of the Cato Institute.
Jonas helped get everyone into the Vegas spirit by describing security issues in the gambling industry, replete with descriptions of slot machine scams using LED "blinding" devices to turn the machines into "runaway chutes", and tiny fingertip biocams used to surveil card games. (Kraig suggests that perhaps the gambling industry is to the privacy/security field what pornography is to emerging technology -- a proving ground). Jonas also discussed IBM's new DB2 Anonymous Resolution, which allows entities to share data without comprising personal information, using one-way encryption by both entities but "correlating" the anonymized data.
My panel this afternoon was on emerging issues in privacy, and my fellow panelist was Karl Delwaide of Fasken Martineau in Montreal, who gave a very informative talk on e-government and outsourcing, among other issues. And a nice guy to boot!
My portion of the panel focused on -- what else -- blogging, and in particular corporate blogging policies. I also touched briefly on VoIP and privacy issues in virtual worlds, another area that I believe will be a proving ground for next gen privacy issues. Here's a copy of my presentation, if anyone is interested.