Privacy Value Networks

Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University: photo by Drumaboy

I’m off to Bristol University this afternoon to speak at a public event organised by the the law school’s centres for IT Law and Human Rights Implementation:

The European Union Data Protection Directive was initially proposed in the early 1990s. In the 20 years that have passed since, both the technological environment and commercial business models have changed out of all recognition. This has led questions about the Directive’s continuing viability as the basis for an appropriate regulatory model for data protection in the Information Society. With the EU Commission’s recent announcement that it plans to strengthen enforcement of EU data privacy law and introduce new requirements that technologies and processes include ‘privacy by design’, this roundtable event considers possible options for the future.

Some background in my just-published article in Computers & Law, Data Protection: the New Technical and Political Environment.

I spoke this morning at the British Library at a conference on the Future of Digital Identity. Some very interesting work on design patterns for digital identity, and the World Wide Web Consortium’s development of social networking standards. Here is my presentation: