Controlling Your Privacy in an Information Society
Are we sitting on a roller-coaster to a new information society whereby the meaning of 'privacy' as we understand it today is lost? Can you take back control of your identity, reputation and your privacy in this new information society? What impact do our online and off-line activities (that are digitally by someone or something, somewhere out in cyberspace) have on our identity, our privacy and our reputation? Can we control this? Can we really operate anonymously online? And how anonymous are we in our off-line activities? Does it matter? Karen Lawrence Öqvist takes you on a journey into the new information society. She will bring together diverse privacy concepts using models that can help us to visualise influencing factors when it comes to taking control of our identity and our privacy; in a society where the rules of play have not yet been defined.
Speaker: Karen Lawrence Öqvist
Karen Lawrence Öqvist is a Security Solution Architect with Hewlett-Packard, residing in Sweden and working internationally. She started her career in IT 20 years ago in the UK. Her interest in digital identities was sparked at CERN, Geneva in 1996, which quickly grew to a passion that drove her to join Novell, the identity company, in 2000. She has a Masters Degree in Information Security from the Royal Holloway University of London and is a published author. She is a frequent speaker at conferences both on the subject of identity and privacy and information security management.