Intel's next-generation 'Eaglelake' chipset family, due for release next year, will feature a built-in data protection engine with the ability to encrypt all the files on your hard drive, the chip giant announced this week.
It calls the engine 'Danbury'. Together with an chipset-integrated Trusted Platform Module, Danbury will be part of Eaglelake chipsets for vPro-branded PCs.
Danbury provides a hardware encryption engine for drive-level data security. The encryption keys are created and maintained within the chipset itself, so there's no need to place them in memory where they could be accessed by malware.
Danbury ties into the TPM, which is one reason why Intel plans to move that module into the chipset packaging. Plenty of desktop and laptop PCs already contain a TPM, implemented as a separate chip. Integrating it will help reduce system costs.

Pirat oder Kunde

• Do not use desktop search tools like Google Desktop or Microsoft Desktop Search.
  
• Do not use webmail from a service provider like AT&T, Google or Microsoft.
  
• Do not use browser toolbars or desktop gadgets.
  
• Remove all social network accounts.
  
• Clear your browser cookies after every session.
  
• Change your local username daily.
  
• Use Opera. With Opera, you can mimic another browser’s identification string, which helps mask your browser’s settings and reduces the information that you send to a web site when you visit.

• Do not make international phone calls.
  
• Do not have a home broadband connection.
  
• Use free Wi-Fi.
  
• Install a host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) like OSSEC.

Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published. The Privacy & Human Rights Report surveys developments in 70 countries, assessing the state of surveillance and privacy protection.

The new 2007 global rankings extend the survey to 47 countries (from the original 37) and, for the first time, provide an opportunity to assess trends.

The intention behind this project is two-fold. First, we hope to recognize countries in which privacy protection and respect for privacy is nurtured. This is done in the hope that others can learn from their example. Second we intend to identify countries in which governments and privacy regulators have failed to create a healthy privacy environment. The aim is not to humiliate the worst ranking nations, but to demonstrate that it is possible to maintain a healthy respect for privacy within a secure and fully functional democracy.

• Are there laws protecting against use of information for secondary purposes?
• Has the government initiated plans for sharing personal information between government agencies?
• Are companies required to hand information over to government?

• Has government signed on to bad international treaties? E.g. Council of Europe Cybercrime convention, treaty of Prum, etc. (in particular, the leaders of the Prum initiative were Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands)
• Some countries because of their privacy commissioners are actually ambassadors of privacy but unfortunately this is rarely sufficient to counter-act bad government policies at the international level

• No explicit right to privacy in constitution but there are special laws for civil rights, including one for data protection; recent Supreme Court decisions are highly problematic
• Data Privacy law does not apply equally to paper files; law is considered cumbersome by experts; also sectoral laws
• Data Privacy Commission can bring civil and criminal provisions against institutions; but criticised for lack of independence
• Prohibits use of genetic data by insurance companies
• Medical data is treated as sensitive data by law
• Legal requirement permitting Austrian military to request subscriber data from telecommunications providers
• Centralisation of data on students that is stored for 60 years
• Social security card with unique numbers but little other information is stored; number of abandoned initiatives including health data cards, or 'citizen card' have been abandoned; e-identity management system is heavily criticised
• Judicial warrants for interception for serious crimes (10 years punishment or more)
• CCTV and audio surveillance is now permitted where data is stored for 48 hours; but this has not been enforced adequately
• Communications data is made available to copyright industry under Supreme Court decision
• Postponed data retention
• Matched DNA database with Germany in December 2006

• „Nur dann, wenn ein Mautvergehen vorliegt oder ein Verdacht darauf besteht, muss uns der Zulassungsschein und ein amtlicher Ausweis vorgelegt werden“, sagt ASFINAG-Regionalleiter Ronald Köller
  
• Die Verkehrspolizei darf auf der Straße sowieso quasi alles, muss aber laut § 21 der Richtlinienverordnung zum Sicherheitspolizeigesetz dabei den Zweck ihres Einschreitens und ihre Rechte bekanntgeben, Erwachsene mit „Sie“ ansprechen und Diskriminierungen auf Grund von Geschlecht, Herkunft oder Hautfarbe vermeiden.
  
• Seinen Namen verraten muss ein amtshandelndes Mitglied der Verkehrspolizei nicht, auf Verlangen Ausweis und Dienstnummer vorweisen jedoch schon. Außer es ist Gefahr in Verzug.
  
• Im Zweifel, ob es man auch wirklich von einem echten Beamten angehalten wurde, das Fenster nur einen Spalt zu öffnen und höflich die Vorlage eines Dienstausweises zu verlangen.