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The Professional
An interesting narrative, trapped unfortunately behind a pay wall, comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education – “Chapel Hill Researcher Fights Demotion After Security Breach” A cancer researcher’s database of gets potentially pwnd (two years from incident to discovery), spurring the … Continue reading
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Tagged breach notification, computer forensics, crime, data breach, medical privacy, privacy, security, standards
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Risk a Harm?
Interesting post and comments on privacy risk from Solove at Concurring Opinions. Despite being raised by a pack of feral solicitors, I can’t claim to understand all the legal theories involved. I’m attracted to the liquidated damages idea for a … Continue reading
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Tagged privacy, reputation risk, risk assessment, ssns, wsbk
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Sociables
When I read this commentary on privacy from Andrea Dimaio from Gartner, I was mildly surprised that people still thought like this, that privacy is tied to secrecy. Bob Blakley responds at the Burton Group. I agree with his analysis, … Continue reading
Releative Position and Privacy
Ed Felton recently wrote two posts on the failure of the marketability of privacy, and how corporations and consumers should respond. According to Felton: There’s an obvious market failure here. If we postulate that at least some customers want to … Continue reading
Tonight, We Dine in Utica!
So, despite a workload that would stun an ox, I still manage to read my Internet privacy stories. Like this one from Ars Technica about the University of Utica and their Secret Service data wrangling on identity theft. I click … Continue reading
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Tagged Everyday Privacy and Security, identity theft, privacy
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Howls of Derisive Laughter, Bruce!
By now, we all know that the concentric perimeter devised by the kangaroo jockeys assigned to protect the best and brightest of Asia and the Pacific were ineffective against comedian pranksters. (Perilocity has the lowdown.) But what if they had … Continue reading
I Feel That It’s Almost Crime
Imagine Monster put a click-through license on the malware, adjusted the privacy policy a tad (include an opt-out for additional “services”), and voila! It’s not a privacy breach, it’s an additional revenue stream! The 1.6M bits of Monster job hunter … Continue reading
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Tagged breach notification, consumer, disclosure laws, identity theft, privacy, singalong
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Impacted Molars: Pay Hell Gettin’ It Done Edition
Random Eye-tooth:I’ve been reading the Counterinsurgency Manual, and I’m figuring there is some analogue to a corporate approach to minimize the “insider threat.” Extraction:Mr. Loblaw describes a grisly example of privacy abuse in a recent decision du jour, selecting the … Continue reading
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Tagged best practices, crime, fraud, identity theft, insider threat, privacy, ssns, teeth, war
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Privacy is a Technological Imperative
My seasonal July funk has been working on me and my attitude, but not so much that I can’t find some perverse humor in the slashdot discussion on privacy as a biological imperative. Ms. Sweeney’s correlation of privacy to the … Continue reading
Throwing Scorpion Out With the Frog Water
Declan McCullagh says that the federal government is unlikely to implement the National Research Council’s privacy recommendations, in particular, a privacy commissioner, because it isn’t in the federal government’s scorpion-like nature. Ars Technica also has coverage. (And why must it … Continue reading
The One In Five 