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Topics: Public Policy
Tags: Security
The European Commission and Parliament are currently in the process of reviewing and amending drafts of a new Data Protection Regulation. This note suggests three compelling reasons why the Regulation should be kept strong, and some specific areas in which amendments are ill advised and should be rejected. First, the Regulation will not be an isolated law. Other international and regional...
Topics: Public Policy
Tags: Security
The European Commission and Parliament are currently in the process of reviewing and amending drafts of a new Data Protection Regulation. This note suggests three compelling reasons why the Regulation should be kept strong, and some specific areas in which amendments are ill advised and should be rejected. First, the Regulation will not be an isolated law. Other international and regional...
24.04.13 by Carlos Vera
Topics: Community Grants
Despues de haber ejecutado el proyecto que mereció un Grant de ISOC para desarrollar un programa de concientización a padres y maestros de varias escuelas del Ecuador, contamos con una guía de aplicación que puede ser empleada para capacitar en nuestros hogares y en nuestro entorno escolar, sobre las verdaderas medidas que pueden apoyar el uso responsable y seguro del Internet. La Internet...
22.04.13 by Christine Runnegar
Topics: Public Policy
A micro blog for a micro survey.   What if you could decide what online data is covered by privacy and data protection laws? Why should that data be protected? How would you define "personal data"?   Earlier this year, in preparation for a workshop organized by the Internet Society at the WSIS+10 Review Event - “The New PII: Privacy-Impacting Information”, the Internet Society...
15.04.13 by Mat Ford
Topics: Tech Matters
This summer the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will meet in Berlin but before the meeting even gets underway, teams of students from around the world will be coding and competing to win the Maniac Challenge 2013. The MANIAC Challenge is a competition to better understand cooperation and interoperability in ad-hoc wireless networks. The specific focus of this year's challenge is on...