[LINK] Geolocation of Au citizen data

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:24 AM 2/10/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Some consumers might be interested in the potential impact of the
>Patriot Act on the data that Amazon holds on behalf of its business/org
>users.
>
>We all have complete trust in overseas governments, don't we?

Now *that* question was asked and he answered that it was ASIO in the 
case of Australia, which can pretty much do what it wants. His 
solution was to encrypt everything. They don't do back-ups 
automatically for customers and he said that deletion is completely 
in the hands of their client. Back-ups are left to the customer to 
design into their use of AWS as part of their data recovery strategy.

In my follow-up talk, which was on Privacy in the age of pervasive 
surveillance, I used this as an example of good tools provided by a 
company (AWS in this case), but the actual impact and protection of 
user data was in the actual implementation (Schneir's point recently 
about the need for better 'engineering') in combination with good 
governance rules, in regulation, oversight and accountability (which 
a person in the audience extended to include adequate penalties), 
very little of which we have in Australia.

Another person asked about the impact of the Free Trade Agreements. I 
couldn't answer that, but I thought it was an excellent question. 
We've all seen how the copyright negotiations turned out!

Jan



Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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