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SUMMARY:Protecting confidentiality in Cloud data processing: Europe's Keys
 er Söze strategy
DTSTART:20130610T163000
DTEND:20130610T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T040356Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Caspar Bowden\, independent advocate for information self-dete
 rmination rights\n"Strong economic incentives to adopt the Cloud processin
 g paradigm presents obvious risks to the confidentiality of data exposed t
 o foreign jurisdictions. Homomorphic encryption seems unlikely to be pract
 ical and current 'trusted computing' technology is designed against consum
 er-grade adversaries. European policymakers have been proposing frameworks
  for legal certification which would permit unlimited export of personal d
 ata\, subject to a commercial security audit of the Cloud platform against
  external threats. However there appears to be a dissonance between regula
 tor expectations that foreign 'requests' for data will be discrete and fol
 low due process\, and evidence from whistle-blowers that apparatus for con
 tinuous mass-surveillance is already systematically deployed. Moreover the
  small-print of these frameworks appears to have been crafted to turn a bl
 ind-eye to secret 'national security' access to data\, even though relevan
 t foreign laws do not comply with European human rights standards\, for ex
 ample by discriminating by nationality and allowing purely political purpo
 ses unrelated to criminality. This talk will describe the recent policy hi
 story\, from the Safe Harbour Agreement to current controversies over the 
 new draft EU Data Protection Regulation."
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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