Porvoo 17 presentations available for download
The first presentations from the 10-11 May 2012 Porvoo 17 conference are available on the Porvoo 17 minisite. Other presentations will be made available for download in due course.
Porvoo Group meets in Brussels
The international Porvoo Group is meeting in Brussels, Belgium on 10 – 11 May 2012 to consider questions relating to electronic identity (eID) and data protection. As daily life is increasingly moving online, citizens are becoming more and more concerned about the protection of their electronic privacy. Can legislation and technology guarantee it?
Porvoo 17 agenda takes shape
The agenda for Porvoo 17 – the seventeenth meeting of the Porvoo Group on electronic identity – is almost final, with less than two weeks to go before the conference. Porvoo 17 is co-organised by the Porvoo Group and e-Forum, and will take place in Brussels on 10-11 May.
European Union countries should move faster if they are to achieve a goal of universal e-procurement by the public sector by 2016, the European Commission said in a strategy document published April 20.
Porvoo registration opens
Registration has opened for the Porvoo 17, the 2012 meeting of the renowned Porvoo Group, which works on electronic identity. The meeting is co-organised in Brussels by e-Forum and the Porvoo Group.
Social networks and other websites that use facial recognition software should follow nine good practice recommendations, according to an opinion adopted by a European Union data protection group.
In addition, the controllers of sites that use facial recognition should obtain specific permission from users before applying facial recognition technology to images that they upload, and should not assume consent because the user has given a general agreement to the terms and conditions of the website, according to the opinion, published in March by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party.
Open Information Day on Cloud Computing
Two cloud computing events are two be held in Brussels in the coming month - the "European Cloud Partnership Information Day" on April 12th 2012 and "Research in Future Cloud Computing" on May 2nd 2012.
