Proposed Amendment to Privacy Act
J.D. Bean Proposed Amendment to the Privacy Act: The Privacy Act Modernization for the Information Age Act of 2011 - Introduced October 18th, 2011 by Senator Daniel K. Akaka chairman of the…
Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches
Vladimir Andric http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/technology/as-patient-records-are-digitized-data-breaches-are-on-the-rise.html?_r=1&ref=identitytheft Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches Another article confirming the "stick with it like glue" as the major security principle when it…
What Google knows about You!
Eleni Gessiou Lately, Google advertises its logo about the new privacy policy "One policy, one Google experience"! So, I spent some time reading the overview and searching (in Google…
Proposed EU Data-Privacy Rules Require Breach Disclosure within 24 Hours
Josh Perles Proposed EU Data-Privacy Rules Require Breach Disclosure within 24 Hours Part of a comprehensive suite of data-privacy reforms, the proposed rules would require any firm with…
Privacy of Financial Data News: International Accounts, Voluntary Disclosure, and Privacy
Caitlin Urbach Privacy of Financial Data News: International Accounts, Voluntary Disclosure, and Privacy The IRS announced on January 9, 2012 that it was instituting another voluntary disclosure program for those…
HOPE 9 call for speakers
The ninth Hackers On Planet Earth conference will take place in New York on July 13-15, 2012. Organizers have issued a call for speakers on a wide variety of topics,…
Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything
"The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed…
FTC settles privacy complaint against Facebook
Facebook has announced its long-rumored privacy settlement with Facebook. The complaint focuses on several allegedly deceptive acts by Facebook, as listed in the press release:In December 2009, Facebook changed its…
Is my Mac laptop sharing my location?
Is my Mac laptop using cell tower information to calculate and transmit my location to third parties? I believe the answer is yes. Here is my evidence. I cleared recent…
One person’s trash is another person’s… medical record?
Joe Hall here. An intriguing story flew past my Twitter stream, that begins: "MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Detailed medical information discovered on the back of a first-grader’s school drawing sent Minneapolis…