Privacy by Design can accelerate the decline of privacy
11 January 2010
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“The way to hell is paved with good intentions” is a well known English saying. I am convinced that it applies to the claim that one can have "security and privacy" by adopting Privacy by Design (PbD) techniques. For example, Dr Cavoukian in her document on the use of whole body scanners at airports (see last week’s blog – 6th Jan) states that a PbD implementation “can satisfy security requirements without sacrificing (and perhaps enhancing) passenger privacy”. At one level
