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Name: Andreas
Family Name: Pfitzmann
Affiliation: Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science
Personal web-site: http://dud.inf.tu-dresden.de/
Short BIO
Prof. Andreas Pfitzmann is a professor of computer science at Technische Universität Dresden since 1993. His research interests include privacy and multilateral security, mainly in communication networks, mobile computing, and distributed applications. He has authored or co-authored about 120 papers in these fields. He received diploma and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and GI, where he served as chairman of the Special Interest Group on Dependable IT-Systems for ten years.
Title of the presentation
Forgetfulness cannot be reliably implemented
Abstract
Forgetfulness cannot be reliably implemented in a distributed system like the Internet. When we discussed forgetfulness in appr. 1986 in my group at Karlsruhe University, this complete lack of reliable implementability caused us not to write any line of text about it. Since then, my position did not change much.
Data retention quite probably will be data retention forever. Probably not by the entities being entitled to access the data retained officially, like police, domestic secret services, and the like, and not by the telcos, either. But by foreign secret services, organized crime, and the like getting to the retained data by hacking or social engineering. Of course, all officials will always tell us that the retained data are reliably erased as promised. And I even assume that must people telling us so really believe what they tell us.
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