Blog Posts Tagged with "Privacy"
An Open Letter to Senator Rockefeller
September 20, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Like in many matters involving science and technology, scientists and technologists should be brought into future deliberations on cyber legislation. The technologists that make the Internet operate and the security experts that battle to defend it need to be brought to the table...
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Creating a Surveillance-Free Internet
September 20, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since its origins in 2008, Freedom Not Fear has developed the general message: fundamental rights like privacy, free expression, due process, and democratic participation are jeopardized when reactionary, fear-driven surveillance systems penetrate our societies...
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Some Simple Definitions for Risk and Security Discussions
September 19, 2012 Added by:Stephen Marchewitz
Every time I read something regarding the core terminology in security and risk management, I start to question whether they really know what they’re talking about. Even worse, some speak with so many words and such arrogance, I start question whether I know what I’m talking about...
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Friends and Family Breach Patient Privacy, Not Estonian Hackers
September 17, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Humans being are naturally curious, sometimes vindictive and always worried when it comes to the health condition of friends and family. Being human, they will bend rules to get information and in the course of bending rules, breach patient privacy...
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Don’t Wait for UK Snoopers’ Charter: Encrypt Wikipedia Now
September 17, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rather than waiting for bad legislation, Wikipedians should take this opportunity to make one relatively small technical change that could serve as a bulwark against all kinds of government surveillance, filtering and data retention laws...
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Digital Vertigo: Today's Online Social Revolution is Disorienting Us
September 16, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
In the new world of social media and Web 3.0, which is claiming to revolutionize communication and interactions, history is repeating itself. Web 3.0 is turning into an Orwellian infrastructure where the ruling party wields total power over the inhabitants...
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The Fine Print of Smartphone Privacy
September 14, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
How often do you think about your cell phone or smartphone privacy? Sure, you think about its physical security, but how often do you think about the security of your data? Your contacts, your email addresses, your location data, your apps, etc. You probably don’t think about this enough...
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You Down with UDID? Yeah, You Know Me...
September 13, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
The Internet is chock full of databases that map UDIDs to usernames, activities, location data, game scores, ad clicks as well as Facebook and other social media profiles. Even if you deleted an application from your phone the data can still persist in the Cloud...
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Maine Supreme Court Affirms Smart Meter Opt-Out Program
September 09, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
Maine has been one of the most aggressive states to pursue widespread implementation of smart utility meters for customers throughout the state, but not all utility customers have embraced smart meters despite consumers concerns over privacy issues...
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Are Your Mobile Apps Up To No Good?
September 06, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Why would an app to monitor your battery need to know your location via your GPS? How come gaming apps ask users for their phone numbers? Mobile applications, especially free ones, require your personal data to supplement development costs. This means “free” isn’t exactly free...
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Research Sheds Light on New Surveillance Apps for Smartphones
September 04, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The FinSpy Mobile analysis will allow vulnerable and at-risk users to better understand the threat of government surveillance and make better judgements to protect their security and privacy. This software is sophisticated and powerful...
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Are Emails of Execs from Public Companies Private?
September 03, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
At the end of July, Twitter suspended the account of Guy Adams, a reporter for the UK’s Independent, after he posted the corporate email address of Jim Bell, Producer of NBC Olympics, and said less than flattering things about his expectations for how NBC would do in their Olympics coverage.
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NSA Still Warrantlessly Wiretapping Americans
August 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
There’s long been ample evidence the NSA has been unlawfully collecting Americans' communications since the passage of the FISA Amendments Act. As the New York Times reported in 2009, the NSA was still collecting purely domestic communications of Americans' in a "significant and systemic" way...
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Ultimate Breach of Patient Privacy: Real-Time Death on Video
August 29, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
As social media becomes part of the continuum of interaction in the physical and virtual worlds, privacy becomes an issue of discretionary disclosure control. Online privacy and patient privacy will evolve into a market for products and services with stratified pricing, packaging and product positioning...
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Why Data Security and Enterprise Risk Management are Important
August 28, 2012 Added by:Christopher Rodgers
Management sometimes assumes that when they have identified and summarized the top risks to their organization through a Strategic Risk Assessment, that they have implemented ERM. This is simply not the case. Strategic Risk Assessment is an important component of ERM and usually a starting point, but not a final destination...
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FTC Seeks Comment on Proposed Revisions to COPPA Rule
August 27, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The proposed modifications to the definitions of "operator" and "website or online service directed to children" address commenters’ concerns related to the use of third party advertising networks and downloadable software kits, or plug ins, that collect personal information through child-directed websites...
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