Award or punch line? HP to give privacy prize

[IDemo]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14943036/

Company mired in spying scandal to issue honor for business ‘imperative'

AP -Updated: 4:54 p.m. ET Sept. 21, 2006

BOSTON - Insert your own punch line: Hewlett-Packard Co., the technology company facing federal and state investigations for spying on board members and journalists, is co-sponsor of an award for “privacy innovation.”

Nominees are currently being accepted for the fourth annual HP/IAPP Privacy Innovation award, which Hewlett-Packard gives in conjunction with the Maine-based International Association of Privacy Professionals.

According to the award’s Web site, the prize was created to honor “strong and unique contributions to the privacy industry.”

“At present, there is not sufficient recognition for organizations that have embraced privacy as a competitive advantage, and as a business/governmental imperative,” the site states.

[Deja Q]

1. Privacy, as in 'circumventing' it?

:rofl:

[IDemo]

2. Pretexting is "innovative"

Or is that "inventive"?

[EVDebs]

3. Scott McNealy will be the presenter I assume ?

McNealy, of Sun Microsystems, was quoted some time ago, "You have no privacy -- get over it."

I also found this on the web...don't know if true or not but makes that quote plausible

""Don't forget that in the wake of September 11th, both him and Ellison were ponying up to offer their company's services in helping to create a national ID. He even calls lining up at airport security an "efficiency tax" that biometric IDs would somehow maaaaagically fix.""

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/26/1537223 (scroll about halfway down)