"To Log or Not to Log?" Cyber Security Agency ENISA Reports on Future Impact of Life-Logging and Online Personal Data, and the Effects on Privacy, Economy, Society and People's Psychology
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Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:07:01 PM
"To Log or Not to Log?" Cyber Security Agency ENISA Reports on Future Impact of Life-Logging and Online Personal Data, and the Effects on Privacy, Economy, Society and People's Psychology
BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, November 11, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
ENISA is looking ahead to 2014 to predict positive and negative effects
of online, "life-logging" on citizens and society. In a new report, "To log
or not to log? Risks and benefits of emerging life-logging technologies,"
the Agency uses a fictional family's day-to-day lives, and examines the
impact for their privacy, the "family wallet", psychology, etc., as they put
even more personal information online. It includes recommendations towards
addressing security and privacy risks.
For citizens across Europe, the benefits of sharing information through
social media, access goods and services via new applications are immense.
Families and friends can stay in touch, and government services can be
accessed through new applications. The report examines both advantages and
risks of people's increasing use of online applications. But to use the
benefits, people need to upload personal information, be it personal
thoughts, videos or financial data, to internet locations over which they
have little control. For individuals, that implies threats to privacy, loss
of personal data control, harm to your reputation and the possibility of
psychological damage from exclusion or the feeling of constant surveillance.
For commercial organisations, there is the risk of breaching data protection
laws, resulting in legal sanctions and irreversible damage to reputation.
Governments may suffer losses of public confidence if they are perceived not
to be properly protecting their citizens' personal information.
Commenting on the report, ENISA's Executive Director, Professor Udo
Helmbrecht, said: "The original feature of our report is that it proves how
information security risks impact several aspects of citizens and society.
It connects the benefits of life-logging, while considering privacy and data
protection aspects too."
Other recommendations include:
- For the European Commission, to use the report in the
current revision of the data protection directive and to promote
security and privacy risk management as a framework
- For governments, to create a regulatory environment with
incentives for privacy-aware devices and services to support competition
and interoperability, and to introduce sanctions for personal data
breaches
- For service providers, to consider the security/privacy impacts
of new services and to use strong security controls to protect
individuals' personal data.
Background European Commission 2010 Communication on Personal Data
Protection
[http://ec.europa.eu/justice/news/consulting_public/0006/com_2010_609_en.pdf ]
For FULL REPORT
[https://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/rm/emerging-and-future-risk/deliverables/life-logging-risk-assessment ]
Source: ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency
For interviews: Ulf Bergstrom, Spokesman, ENISA, press@enisa.europa.eu, Mobile: + 30-6948-460-143, or Barbara Daskala, Expert, ENISA barbara.daskala Q enisa.europa.eu.
BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, November 11, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
ENISA is looking ahead to 2014 to predict positive and negative effects
of online, "life-logging" on citizens and society. In a new report, "To log
or not to log? Risks and benefits of emerging life-logging technologies,"
the Agency uses a fictional family's day-to-day lives, and examines the
impact for their privacy, the "family wallet", psychology, etc., as they put
even more personal information online. It includes recommendations towards
addressing security and privacy risks.
For citizens across Europe, the benefits of sharing information through
social media, access goods and services via new applications are immense.
Families and friends can stay in touch, and government services can be
accessed through new applications. The report examines both advantages and
risks of people's increasing use of online applications. But to use the
benefits, people need to upload personal information, be it personal
thoughts, videos or financial data, to internet locations over which they
have little control. For individuals, that implies threats to privacy, loss
of personal data control, harm to your reputation and the possibility of
psychological damage from exclusion or the feeling of constant surveillance.
For commercial organisations, there is the risk of breaching data protection
laws, resulting in legal sanctions and irreversible damage to reputation.
Governments may suffer losses of public confidence if they are perceived not
to be properly protecting their citizens' personal information.
Commenting on the report, ENISA's Executive Director, Professor Udo
Helmbrecht, said: "The original feature of our report is that it proves how
information security risks impact several aspects of citizens and society.
It connects the benefits of life-logging, while considering privacy and data
protection aspects too."
Other recommendations include:
- For the European Commission, to use the report in the
current revision of the data protection directive and to promote
security and privacy risk management as a framework
- For governments, to create a regulatory environment with
incentives for privacy-aware devices and services to support competition
and interoperability, and to introduce sanctions for personal data
breaches
- For service providers, to consider the security/privacy impacts
of new services and to use strong security controls to protect
individuals' personal data.
Background European Commission 2010 Communication on Personal Data
Protection
[http://ec.europa.eu/justice/news/consulting_public/0006/com_2010_609_en.pdf ]
For FULL REPORT
[https://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/rm/emerging-and-future-risk/deliverables/life-logging-risk-assessment ]
Source: ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency
For interviews: Ulf Bergstrom, Spokesman, ENISA, press@enisa.europa.eu, Mobile: + 30-6948-460-143, or Barbara Daskala, Expert, ENISA barbara.daskala Q enisa.europa.eu.