On the second day of our conference, Professor Valerie Steeves spoke about how children interact with popular sites like Webkinz, Neopets and Barbie Girls. We have already provided a brief summary of her presentation and her fellow speakers on the subject, but thought you would like to see her speech. The presentation deck she used for her speech, and to which she refers, is also available online.
As we mentioned several weeks ago, Michael Chertoff spoke at the opening session of the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.
The Secretary of Homeland Security spoke about the tension between privacy and security, and questioned whether every step taken to strengthen national security must come at the expense of privacy? A few more details are available on the Secretary’s own blog.
Today, we finally uploaded his 30 minute speech. It’s available on video.google.ca, and we’ve embedded it below as well.
We heard from Peter Fleischer, the Chief Privacy Officer for search company Google, on Friday.
Speaking in French, he touched upon how Google faced different expectations to protect personal information and privacy from consumers and advocates in different countries and jurisdictions around the world.
As could be expected, he also argued for the creation of global privacy standards. Mr. Fleischer also emphasized that some data needs to be retained in order to personalize the services offered by Google and other online applications - and emphasized that users find the personalization of services extremely valuable and convenient.
The video is divided into two parts, and is only available in French. Sorry.
As we mentioned earlier this week, Professor Michael Geist spoke at the closing session of the Conference. He noted that we already live in a world where surveillance is common place, and our personal data trail crosses borders and oceans and lives in countless databases.
“Chertoff came to us and said “this is my world, this is my vision, what are you prepared to do about it?”
We have posted the video of Professor Geist’s speech on YouTube, and you can view it below.
Videos are posted in the language of the original speaker.