Amazingly enough, it took less than 24 hours to see the first massive privacy issues flaring up with Google Chrome. In a CNET interview, Peter Eckersley of the EFF says: "We're worried that Chrome will be another giant conveyer belt moving private information about our use of the Web into Google's data vaults," Eckersley said. "Google already knows far too much about what everybody is thinking at any given moment. Now this is a total surprise, is it not? Not only can Google read all your mail, knows

In my earlier article today I pointed out a rather significant security blunder in Germany, where a number of municipal IT departments failed to secure their systems. This lead to exposure of at least 500,000 personal data records to the internet - so far I have not heard that any affected person was informed about their involuntary expose to identity thieves. In this context it seems a little untimely to publicly announce a new electronic signature program that will start in 2012.Under this program,

While Germany and Europe in general have some of the strictest rules regarding the use and storage of personally identifiable information, the last few months have seen rather extreme data security breaches. Today, the German media is reporting about a new installment of irresponsible negligence government incompetence: According to the SPIEGEL ONLINE a spokesperson for the software company HSH admitted that the personal information of more than 500,000 residents of at least 15 cities and towns were

Paul found an "periodic" table of data visualizations , which is quite nice in its own right (Paul: I think I have seen a knowledge map of the identity landscape some time ago). But I certainly prefer this "periodic" table of ... beers (hmmm). tag: humor , beer