Items Tagged with "Privacy"
Facebook - Breaking Your Privacy Rules
October 22, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
The cause for concern is the Facebook ID number can be used to trace back to a person's name and their friends' names even if you have your security settings at the highest and strictest levels. In other words, you have a false sense of privacy...
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The Law of Privacy on Social Networks
October 20, 2010 Added by:David Navetta
Relevant information stored on social networks is generally discoverable in civil litigation. This simple proposition is largely ignored by most users of social media, and has been largely ignored by lawyers doing discovery in civil litigation...
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California Unemployment Exposing Social Security Numbers
October 12, 2010 Added by:Lawrence Pingree
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) is still in the practice of sending out it's customer statements with some of the information needed to perform a successful identity theft. This includes a persons name, address and social security number...
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Privacy, National Security and Internet Traffic
October 07, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
I would like to see open and vigorous debate where the voices of both Privacy advocates and National Security & Law Enforcement agencies are heard. By vetting the pros and cons of the issue, I believe the country can craft a law that accommodates the concerns and needs of both sides...
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Should the U.S. Ban Google Street View?
October 01, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
Connecticut's Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is representing a 37-state coalition in the US. The coalition is looking into the privacy and security issues with Google Street View, especially related to their data collection from personal and company Wi-Fi networks without permission...
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Geolocation Technology: Please Stalk and Rob Me
September 29, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Geolocation is supposed to help you save a few bucks on discounts when you check in at participating retail stores and gather points. It is also supposed to tell your friends via geo-tagging that you just snapped a photo somewhere. However there is nothing safe about this technology...
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Pentagon Considers Preemptive Strikes as Cyberdefense
September 17, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
Safety & privacy - they can coexist but there is a healthy tension. Sometimes we give up privacy to be secure. Sometimes we guard our privacy and knowingly or unknowingly give up some of our security. It's a true conundrum. How much privacy are we willing to give up for that safety?
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The Naked Truth About Body Scanners - Update
September 16, 2010 Added by:Ron Baklarz
Contrary to the TSA's insistence that scanned body images cannot be stored or recorded, it seems they can and are being retained. A lawsuit has been filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center asking for an immediate injunction to stop TSA's body scanning program...
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Private Networking and Paying for Privacy
September 14, 2010 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The privacy controls that governments are attempting to impose on social media and the technical safeguards that social networks like Facebook are implementing seem to be band-aids on a larger and much more significant two-part problem...
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Shredding for Security
September 12, 2010 Added by:Guy Pace
That shredder you bought four or five years ago has been working fine and you dispose of the shredded remains appropriately. But, it might not be getting the job done well enough, depending on the type of material you shred, how you dispose of it, or the environment you are in...
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Does Confidentiality Still Matter?
September 02, 2010 Added by:John Verry
The boundaries between private and public are pretty thin. Rather than ramp back, many people are continuously broadcasting their whereabouts and activities using Four Square and Twitter. GenY folks are just not all that concerned about confidentiality because they are not that concerned about privacy...
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Privacy Policies 1 - Foursquare Privacy Policy Reviews
August 30, 2010 Added by:Mark Gardner
This post was going to be about my experiences signing up for Foursquare following the publicity over the new Facebook places. This post is now the first in a series regarding social media privacy policies, which will look at the Privacy Policies of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn...
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The Slippery Slope of eReader Privacy
August 25, 2010 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
The better and faster that our technology and gadgets become, the less privacy and security we seem to have. Lack of privacy in the name of commerce can lead to a lack of privacy in the name of government. This is a slippery slope, and frankly, it’s a slope I don’t want to slide down...
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iPhone Geo Blocking and Your Privacy
August 24, 2010 Added by:Rob Fuller
Earlier this summer I was approached by Savant, who told me that a bunch of my Twitpics had geo location in them. At a recent NoVA Hackers meetup there was a presentation about Geo forensics on mobile phones that was really enlightening, but very depressing for iPhone users like myself...
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Black Day for Blackberry Users in India
August 19, 2010 Added by:Sudha Nagaraj
It is a sad day for information security, consumer privacy and encryption technology. All the advancements in securing information flow on the Net, protecting customer confidentiality, and improving encryption methodologies will be brought to naught with one regulatory stroke...
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National Strategy for Online Identification
August 17, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
The NSTIC calls for the creation of an online environment where individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the infrastructure that facilitates the transaction...