The Privacy Foundation
Civilization is the Progress Toward a Society of Privacy
Privacy Foundation Seminar Schedule 10-24-08
Stay Tuned for Information on the Upcoming Privacy Foundation Seminars:
Fall – October 24, 2008
Governmental and Private Privacy Issues
and
Spring – March 20, 2009
Privacy and Ethics
Featured Article
Is Your Client Prepared To Comply With the Data Security Breach Notification Laws?
By Alan M. Mansfield
Banking’s Data Security Crisis, 11/21/08, www.forbes.com
Countrywide Financial may have become a poster child for U.S. financial institutions ruined by poisonous subprime loans…
JP Morgan’s Insider Trading How-To on Wikileaks, 03/18/08, www.slashdot.org
The document reads like a how-to and explains how to take advantage of SEC Rule 10b5-1…
UsernameCheck.com – Check your Username, 11/19/08, www.killerstartups.com
A simple service that might nonetheless come in handy sometime
MA: REPORT ON THE M.G.L. CHAPTER 93H NOTIFICATIONS, 10/19/08, www.pogowasright.org
It has now been over 10 months since the new identity theft law took effect. Under that law…
1.7 Million Canadians Are Victims of Identity Fraud, 11/17/08, www.pogowasright.org
Nearly 1.7 million Canadian consumers were victims of identity fraud in the past year
Q&A: Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook, 04/04/08, www.pogpwasright.org
Facebook’s man in charge of privacy talks about the challenges of China, identity theft and child protection.
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.
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…
New guidelines push agencies to build in IT security controls upfront, 11/21/08, www.pogowasright.org
Guidelines on evaluating information security at agencies soon will be revised to better address concerns about protecting personal information and to incorporate risk assessments into processes for building computer systems…
Schneier sticks it to surveillance, 11/19/08, www.pogowasright.org
Security guru Bruce Schneier has challenged the view that privacy and security are at loggerheads, suggesting the real debate is between liberty and control.
Colorado state Web site dishes out SSNs of top execs, 10/09/08, www.pogowasrigt.org
The Web site of the Colorado Secretary of State is making available the Social Security numbers and other personal data of numerous CEOs…
We have no evidence that the data have been misused, 10/06/08, www.pogowasright.org
The next time you read a statement that a breached entity has found no evidence of data misuse, remember this: data may have been misused even though entities are unaware of it.
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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