With its proposal, the European Parliament ignores the need for granular data, at least in the first steps of the research and the use of privacy enhancing technologies in further steps, to give us adequate feedback on our current practices of health care delivery and health protection.
In spite of the use of privacy enhancing technologies, data in health research is highly likely to contain indirectly identifiable variables, simply because of its granularity.
A former high-ranking American security official claiming the US should match China in restricting the use of privacy-enhancing technology is disconcerting, to put it mildly.
While these concerns date back nearly two decades [3] and have not led to wide use of privacy-enhancing technologies [4], the topic of privacy rights in online activity is higher than ever on political agenda and media attention.
This entails the use of privacy by design — proactively embedding privacy directly into technologies and business practices, resulting in privacy and functionality.
The "un-American docility" described by William Safire (column, Feb. 18) as the public's response to the use of new privacy-infringing technology raises the question: How can we reconcile our complacency with the fact that we are Americans, supposedly dedicated to personal liberty and spirited political debate?
This is not possible without an extensive use of information technology which may endanger privacy [ 22].
Privacy advocates criticized the use of such technology after it was revealed that similar technology was used at the 2001 Super Bowl to compare the faces of everyone entering the stadium against a photo file of criminals and terrorists.
"I think that in the next five years, the majority of Internet users will be using some form of privacy-enhancing technology".
Privacy and technology – The ACLU's Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology promotes "responsible uses of technology that enhance privacy protection", and opposes uses "that undermine our freedoms and move us closer to a surveillance society".
