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Okay, after the recent passport files snooping debacle I found today's news story, "Outsourcing passports 'profound liability'" very ironic and concerning.
Not only for the reported huge waste of taxpayers' dollars, but also for the security risks...
Continue reading Who Had The Brilliant Idea To Outsource U.S. Passports?...
I just read this and found the implication that folks over 50 years of age are not terrorist threats rather odd.
Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released some new rules related to READ ID.
Continue reading Terrorists Over 50 Don't Fly According To The DHS...
I am happy to live in Iowa. I've enjoyed getting to see the presidential hopefuls in the state for the past 1+ years. I always vote during presidential elections, but I've never yet declared a party; I really don't want to be listed in who knows how many places under such a label. However, this year I would really like to participate in the Iowa caucus.
Continue reading Don't Expect Privacy At The Iowa Caucuses...
Considering large numbers of privacy breaches occurring within government agences involving mobile computing devices and storage devices, this caught my eye.
I found a report yesterday, "Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy" quite interesting. The impact on privacy...the actual definition, not the definition Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, thinks it should be...would not only be a huge step backward for the country, but it would also increase the threats to personally identifiable information (PII) exponentially.
I just read about a French Supreme Court decision made on October 10 (you can see a Google English rough translation of it here) that is significant to organizations who have employees in France, or anywhere worldwide for that matter, and the organization's employee monitoring practices.
I, along with a very large number of other bloggers, writers and instructors, often pick apart data protection and privacy laws and regulations, and point out how certain portions of them are infeasible for most organizations to implement, and talk about the types of laws that should be inacted to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and privacy. But how many of us actually do something about it and contact our lawmakers to communicate this information?
One of the sessions I attended at the IAPP Privacy Academy this past week was "APEC Update - Self Regulatory Approaches to Cross Border Transfers of Personal Data." The presenters were: Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Marty Abrams, Executive Director, Center for Information Policy Leadership, and Fran Maier, Executive Director and President, TRUSTe.
Continue reading APEC Privacy Framework: Viewpoints from the FTC, TRUSTe & Marty Abrams...
Scanning the news this morning, this CNN headline caught my eye, "Mouse click could plunge city into darkness, experts say"
The first sentence is compelling:
Continue reading DHS Exploding Generator Shows Dire Need For Better Computer Security...
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