Tag ‘privacy’
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Good news today as the White House supports efforts for online service providers and web browsers to implement a “do not track standard”– just as we have been doing here in the EU. Read the full entry
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I "friend" Sheryl
While at the World Economic Forum in Davos this morning, I had an important discussion with Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook; we talked about protecting children, and new data protection rules.
One of my priorities under the Digital Agenda is to ensure that children use new technologies in the safest way possible to learn, play, communicate and be creative. Facebook is already one of the parties to the EU’s Safer Social Networking Principles. But keeping children safe online is a shared responsibility, for all sectoral players, wherever they lie along the value chain – they all have a role to play, depending on how their devices or services engage with children as users. Read the full entry
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I’m really positive about how the Internet helps – not just one-way communication – but genuine interaction. So I am happy to announce that I will have another tweetchat on Monday 30 January, 3pm to 3.30pm (Brussels time). Anyone can join in. This is an opportunity for you to send in comments or questions on my recent announcement on cloud computing, on privacy online, and on the Commission’s recent proposal to revise data protection rules across Europe (on which my blog is here).
This is why I would like to get your questions and comments on these issues – and of course others. Just send me a tweet from any time now – using the #askneelie hashtag – and I’ll do my best to respond on Monday. I look forward to a great live-chat with all of you!
[Update 2 Feb: results of the tweetchat available in HTML, .ods or Excel format; or see the follow -up blog]
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Me getting some tips from my young advisers
We’re just approaching the end of our first ever Digital Agenda Assembly. It’s been a fulfilling – if action-packed – couple of days.
For those of you who don’t know, the DAA is a staging post for the Agenda – one year after we launched it. So a chance to review what’s been done, and a chance to remind ourselves why the project is so important; a “State of the Digital Union”. Read the full entry
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Image by Erik Wilde, University of Berkeley
Technical issues are often about much more than technology – they are values questions also. That is the clear message I will send today in a speech at the 2nd annual Internet of Things conference in Brussels.
IBM claims that there will be one trillion devices connected to the Internet by 2011. In the future it seems possible that every person and every thing could be connected wirelessly from virtually any position on earth. Such a development should not be taken lightly. There is great potential in the Internet of Things, but also serious privacy and ethical issues. How we develop these networks should depend on our values, not on the technology.
If we want to see the Internet of Things save lives (through eCall for example), help us move around faster and cut our energy use, let’s have a real debate about how we want it to develop. That way the choices we do make will have a lasting positive impact.
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