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- The degree to which an individual can determine which personal information is to be shared with whom and for what purpose. Although always a concern when users pass confidential...
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- Schneier: Will data reuse foster creation of a police state?
- The current era of "extreme data collection" puts crytography expert Bruce Schneier in mind of how the government abused US Census data collection during World War II. Writing in Wired, Schneier recalls that Census rules specifically banned the re-use of Census data, precisely so people would provide data without fear...
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Two controversial bills aim to rein in identity theft
- In the war on identity theft, two new bills were recently approved by the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee, but despite Congresss overwhelming support, some industry insiders still have reservations, reports CNET News. The proposals would create new regulations on spyware and set greater limits on the use...
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Anti-Real ID rebellion comes to the Senate
- The debate rages on over citizen privacy rights versus government standards for drivers licenses, reports the Washington Post. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) stood his ground over protecting citizen privacy by stating that he would support a repeal of the RealID Act, a 2005 law that...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- More states move to allow credit reports freezes
- With government lapses continuing to expose personal data to hackers and identity thieves (for instance, the TSAs loss of a hard drive with personal data of 100,000 people including US marshalls), heres welcome news: many states are adopting legislation that allow consumers to place a "security freeze" on their credit...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Deadline today for comments on RealID
- The deadline to file comments on the Real ID Act is 5pm ET on Tuesday, May 8, Declan McCullagh reports on the News.com blog. If you want to object or offer praise to the idea, a website called Privacy Coalition is set up to send in comments on...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Huge new report recommends a new privacy bureaucracy
- After seven years, the National Research Council has issued a new 400-page report, entitled "Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age," which calls for a European-style bureaucracy and if you think American bureaucracy is bad you really need to spend some time on the continent to monitor governmental...
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Bush wants immunity for telcos that assisted in illegal searches
- With dozens of lawsuits against phone companies for cooperating with the Bush Adminisrations domestic spying operations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundations suit against AT&T, President Bush is now asking Congress to give immunity to the phone companies, The Washington Post reports. Lots of luck getting that...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 people
- This may come as surprise to no one but the Census Bureau inadvertently posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received financial aid, census officials reports the Washington Post. Although the Social Security numbers were removed from the site, there are still...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- WI library won't turn over tapes of nonfiction pervert
- WhenWisconsin lawmakers crafted a library privacy law, they probably werent thinking about protecting sex maniacs in the stacks, but that seems to be effect. The Neenah Public Library has a surveillance video of a man who reportedly was masturbating in the nonfiction stacks, but they arent going to release the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?
- Writing in Technology Review, Mark Williams explains that the problem with the Transportation Security Administrations watchlists - which famously produce reams of false positives - is based on a very old algorithm called Soundex. Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- MA exposes thousands of private data - and doesn't plan to stop
- In a truly incredible display of governmental disregard for personal privacy, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin has refused to take down - or provide any access restrictions - on tens of thousands of personal data records that identify borrowers SSNs, bank account numbers, home addresses and phone numbers, The...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- What's wrong with RealID?
- Phil Libin, president of CoreStreet, an ID management firm, writes a perspective piece at CNET in which he questions the strong backlash against RealID. Security is a mess under the current systems. Methods of collecting, verifying and storing background data differ from state to state, as do the...
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- USPTO: Filesharing poses national security risks
- The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a report that finds filesharing programs "threaten the security of personal, corporate, and governmental data,” according to Jon Dudas, the Bush Administration’s point person on copyright policy. According to a government press release, distributors intentionlly included features to facilitate...
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Census employees inadvertantly post citizen data
- The Census Bureau posted personal information from 302 households on a public Internet site multiple times over a five-month period, the bureau said today, the AP reports. Names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and family income ranges, but not Social Security numbers, said spokeswoman Ruth Cymber. "A...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Datamining program violated privacy laws
- The Department of Homeland Security has violated privacy laws in the testing of an aggressive data-mining program, a forthcoming Government Accountability Office reports says. The Washington Post reports that the GAO found that DHS researchers used citizens real information instead of fake data in testing the ADVISE program. ADVISE...
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Report: DHS must complete privacy assessments
- The Homeland Security Department is not doing enough to protect personal information within its computer systems, Government Computer News reports on DHS Inspector General Richard L. Skinners report. The department has performed draft assessments of most of its computer systems, but only 23 percent of those assessments of...
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Maine's attempt to force Verizon disclosure moves to CA
- The Maine PUCs attempts to learn whether Verizon provided customer data to the National Security Agency took another turn this week. The case has been assigned to a federal court in California, The Portland Press Herald reports. Last May consumers tried to learn whether the NSA had been provided...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- OK bill would create email registry for sex offenders
- The Oklahoma State Legislature is cracking down on registered sex offenders by offering up a measure that would ban registered sex offenders from communicating with children over an Internet Web site, reports the Ardmoreite. The measure, which has been passed by the Criminal Justice and Corrections Subcommittee, authorizes...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- German court rejects police use of spyware
- Porn advertisers arent the only ones interested in sneaking spyware onto PCs. It would be extremely handy for law enforcement to monitor the web activities of, say, suspected child pornographers or terrorists. In the US, thats legal if the police get a warrant to monitor the computer based on probable...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- FBI's 'full-pipe' surveillance may be illegal
- In an initiative that is reminescent of the National Security Agencys widespread Internet monitoring and seems to exceed the much-criticized Carnivore surveillance system, the FBI is compiling huge databases of Internet users online behavior, two law professors charged Friday at syposium at Stanford Law School. News.com reports that...
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
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