The proceedings from the Intel Privacy Place Workshop are now available online. The following presentations are available for download in pdf format:

David Baumer - Commercially Reasonable Security: The Emerging Technical, Legal, and Accounting Standards
Travis Breaux - Models of Regulatory Requirements: Domain Analysis to Assure Product Compliance
Julie Earp - The First Step in Protecting Privacy: Understanding What People Think
David Hoffman and Claire Vishik - Intel Privacy/Security Policy
Keith Irwin - When What We Must Do Meets What We Can Do: Obligations and Security Policies
Laurie Jones - OpenSeminar and the Study of Privacy
Paul Otto - Legal Compliance and Software Systems
Ting Yu - Privacy Policy Specification and Enforcement
Qing Zhang - Aggregate Query Answering on Anonymized Tables

The Privacy Place is undergoing some maintenance and new construction. We’ve moved to another server and updated some of our software, but some of these changes are still in progress. We will announce the changes made when they are finalized. Please bear with us during this transition time.

Dr. Antón testified today on behalf of the USACM to the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee about the security and privacy of Social Security Numbers. Her testimony is available here.

A presentation outlining the various efforts to handle regulations for software requirements engineering is available here; to read the paper, which was submitted to RE07, click here.

The results from The Privacy Place’s analysis of the ChoicePoint data breach will appear in IEEE Security & Privacy; to read the paper, click here.

The survey results from the 2005 Privacy Survey will appear in Transactions on Engineering Management; to read the paper, click here.

Annie Antón was awarded the 2005 Women of Influence Award in the Public Sector Category. The awards are sponsored by CSO Magazine and the Executive Womens Forum.

Ph.D Student Travis Breaux has been awarded the Cisco Systems Information Assurance Scholarship for the Fall 2005 semester, valued at $2,500. He is one of just four students in the country selected to receive the scholarship this semester. He joins three previous ThePrivacyPlace.Org CISCO Scholarship recipients: Qingfeng He (Spring 2005), Matt Vail (Fall 2004) and Neha Jain (Fall 2003).

Our Spring workshop is scheduled for March 14-15 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. The two keynote speakers are: Mikhail Atallah (Purdue University) Margaret Eisenhauer (Hunton & Williams, Atlanta). Additional speakers include Steven Adler (IBM Tivoli, NY), Gene Spafford (Purdue University). For more information, please contact Mr. Paul Otto.

The Online Privacy Act of 2003 (Calif. AB 68) is a new law that is going into effect in the state of California on July 1, 2004. The law sets forth requirements for any online business collecting personally identifiable information from residents of California.

The following article from COMPUTERWORLD, and this one from About.com, briefly describe the law and some of its implications.

OnlineSecurity.com has created a guide to developing a AB 68 compliant privacy policy, which can be found here.