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Featured Article
Is Your Client Prepared To Comply With the Data Security Breach Notification Laws?
By Alan M. Mansfield
An F.A.Q. on the Heartland Payment Systems breach, 1/22/2009, www.pogowasright.org
Because Heartland Payment Systems has not really answered the questions of interest to consumers and bloggers like me, I thought — out of “an abundance of caution” — that I would compile what we know and create an F.A.Q. on the breach.
Customer Says Local Bank Warned Of Potential Security Breach, 1/21/2009, www.databreaches.net
Curiouser and curiouser… Forcht Bank’s spokesperson originally told a news source that they had been told by First Data Corporation that a breach involving 8,500 debit cards was due to a retail merchant.
Heartland Payment Systems breach could be massive, 1/20/2009, breachblog.com
Payments processor Heartland Payment Systems has learned it was the victim of a security breach within its processing system in 2008.
FTC Issues Report on Social Security Numbers and Identity Theft, 12/18/2008, www.bespacific.com
The Federal Trade Commission issued a report today recommending five measures to help prevent Social Security numbers from being used for identity theft.
UsernameCheck.com – Check your Username, 11/19/08, www.killerstartups.com
A simple service that might nonetheless come in handy sometime
Database of All UK Children Launched, 05/18/2009, www.slashdot.org
“‘A controversial database which holds the details of every child in England has now become available for childcare professionals to access.
Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany, 11/03/08, www.slashdot.org
After protests from several sources, major German news site Spiegel Online has dropped Google Analytics.
UK companines: Leaking Like a Sieve? , 5/12/2008, www.pogowasright.org
Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found.
Report: Rethinking the Role of Consent in Protecting Health Information Privacy, 1,26,2009, www.pogowasright.org
News release: “CDT today released a major policy paper intended to move the health privacy debate…
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers, 8/4/08, www.pogowasright.org
Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health “credit report” drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.
UCSF waited six months before telling patients of data breach, 05/01/2008, www.pogowasright.org
Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year…
Ca: ICBC admits snooping into jurors’ private files, 05/14/2009, www.pogowasright.org
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has chastised the Insurance Corporation of B.C. for checking the accident claims histories of jurors in a recent civil court case.
What Google knows about you, 05/11/2009, www.computerworld.com
Google may know more about you than your mother does. Got a problem with that?
Essays on Deep Packet Inspection and Privacy, 04/05/2009, www.pogowasright.org
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada invited a series of essays on deep packet inspection and the interplay between privacy, data protection and modern network technologies.
New CyberSecurity Bill Raises Privacy Questions, 04/03/2009, www.slashdot.org
“The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF) gives the president the ability to ‘declare a cybersecurity emergency’ and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any ‘critical’ information network ‘in the interest of national security.’
Major tech companies to drop support for comprehensive U.S. privacy law, 03/05/2009, www.pogowasright.org
In the summer of 2006, a who’s who of technology and Internet companies garnered headlines when they formed the Consumer Privacy Legislative Initiative.
In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ’s New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush’s, 4/09/09, www.pogowasright.org
Friday evening, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping of countless Americans, the Obama Administration’s made two deeply troubling arguments.
A First Principles Approach to Communications’ Privacy, 5/17/2008, www.pogowasright.org
Under current doctrine, parties to a communication enjoy robust constitutional protection against government surveillance…
Privacy Concerns About U.S. Database, 11/19/08, www.insidehighered.com
As a general rule, big government databases aren’t especially popular…
France Decides That Expressing An Opinion About Your Teachers Should Be Illegal, 03/04/08, www.techdirt.com
Sites like RateMyTeacher.com and RateMyProfessor.com have been around in the US for ages…
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