This is the third post in this series about privacy in the digital world. The first post centered on general concepts of privacy in the EU and the US; the second looked at a US citizen’s rights in this area. Today, we will examine the legal protections for Australians and New Zealanders.
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Are You Part of The Inside Track?
Have you heard about The Inside Track? I first heard about The Inside Track back in July 2017, when I received an email invitation to join a new LinkedIn group called “The Inside Track – End User Computing” from my friends and colleagues over at Liquidware Labs—or just Liquidware, as they like to be referred to now. Curiosity ended up getting the better of me, and I started to do a little research to see what I could discover about The Inside Track
Are We Ready for SDN?
SDN, or software-defined networking, is taking over the world—or at least if you listened to the marketers for the main purveyors of SDN and its cousin SD-WAN, you would think so. In fact, if you just listened to the marketers, you would be feeling pretty inadequate with your local data center; your physical network with …
No Need for Independent Clusters for Security or Compliance
On the latest Virtualization and Cloud Security Podcast (11/09/2017), senior technical marketing architect for vSphere Security Mike Foley and I discussed security and compliance, and segregated or independent clusters for each. This has been one of my personal hot topics for a while. The issue is that many folks think, rightly or wrongly, that a …
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Privacy: It Is Such a Personal Thing, Part 2
In my first post in this series, I posited that there is an implicit assumption that every individual has the right to data privacy and that privacy has on the whole been codified into law in may first-world countries, with the exception of the United States. In this second post in this series, I will begin …
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Unplanned Obsolescence – Digital Lifespan
Recently, the xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/1909/) mentioned digital lifespan with a pithy comment about digital resources disappearing quickly. This is quite prevalent in the project to restore NASA records from Apollo missions, such as LOIRP. NASA participated in unplanned obsolescence as well as misunderstanding the value of its data. It picked data formats that were not …
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