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Pros & Cons Of Surveillance Cameras For Compliance

We had a very interesting discussion on Twitter this morning about the practice of automatically photographing license plates to use for parking, tickets, etc......

Surveillance: I Spy With My Little Eye Some Potlikker Pie

Do any of you really think that there is a single place on earth that cannot be looked down upon from satellites too high in the sky to see with the naked eye? Google continues their march to know all...

Surveillance: Iowa Support's Wife's Privacy Invasion Claim

Privacy-related news in Iowa...and there seems to be a lot of it sometimes...is always of special interest to me. I often wonder how the same types of situations would play out in other states. Here's an invasion of privacy case...

Using Speeding Surveillance To Get Your Enemies In Trouble

Well, you knew this type of abuse would happen sooner or later......

Santa Sees All; But Puts The U.S. On Naughty List For Poor Privacy Practices...?

Here's a great article for Christmas Eve that covers a wide range of surveillance tools and techniques that are increasingly used by governments, law enforcement, employers, suspicious spouses, etc, etc, etc......

An Example of Google's Street View Crossing The Privacy Line...?

Recently I wrote about the privacy implications of Google Street View after communicating with John Grogan (from Popular Science and Computer World) about this topic; see here and here. Today I saw an ABC news video......

Privacy Concerns Of Google Walking Directions

Last Friday afternoon I got a message from a Popular Science reporter, John Brandon, asking me if I thought that the Google walking directions feature created any privacy concerns. I was finishing a client deliverable at the time, but indicated...

Locational Privacy...And Nonconsenting Research Subjects

Here's an interesting, relatively new, privacy (with regard to publicity any way) issue that was reported today: locational privacy......

Spitzer Downfall Spotlights Surveillance In Mainstream

In case you haven't heard, now ex-New York-governor Elliot Spitzer recently was found to be the frequent customer of a "high end call girl service" for the past couple of years. How was he caught? Through an electronic path he...

Encryption So Easy Even A Terrorist Can Use It

It seems all business leaders would understand by now, after literally thousands of privacy incidents in recent years, that they need to encrypt personally identifiable information (PII) stored on mobile computers and mobile storage devices, and when sending PII through...

FBI Plans to Catalog Everyone's Physical Characteristics, and Bush Does Away With Privacy Oversight Board

Here's something scary... I just saw a new CNN report that made me go, "Huh?!" "FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping"...

Judge Rules USA PATRIOT Act Breaks Separation of Powers Requirements

There was some very interesting news in the Kansas City Star today; "Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act"...

Can Japan, U.S. and/or Europe Replace Internet And Thus Solve Security Woes?

And another very interesting USA Today article, "Japan will research Net replacement."...

Virtual Police Patrolling Internet Users in China

A very interesting article in USA Today caught my eye, "Beijing police will patrol Web virtually"...

Surveillance and Managing Information With So Many Ways To Capture It

Over the weekend a news story appeared in Australia that I'm sure is occurring in MANY other organizations, far beyond just schools; "Teachers being secretly filmed by students"...

Privacy: Surveillance and Poor Security Practices

Today I read with interest an article in the U.K.'s Guardian Unlimited, "Surveillance 'intrudes on our lives'." I am doing some research into various surveillance methods, such as with CCTV, key loggers, and other methods of surreptitiously recording the activities...

Security and Legal Implications: NLRB Hears Oral Argument Regarding Employee's Use of Employer's Email System

There are increasing reports of email misuse, malicious use, mistaken use, and just plain bad implementations of email systems that allow the many threats out in the wild and woolly Internet, and the desperado insiders, to exploit vulnerabilities. It is...

Insider Threat Example: Former Wal-Mart Employee Spied Because His Managers Told Him To

I have seen organizations where management and staff members were so fixated on protecting the company, to the disregard of observing laws and complying with policies, that they ended up doing completely inappropriate actions that involved infringing on privacy and...

Royal Academy of Engineering Releases Privacy Study Report: Emphasizes Importance of Engineering Security and Privacy Into Technology

The Royal Academy of Engineering, located in London, recently released a report, "Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change." I just ran across it and haven't had a chance to review it in depth yet, but a quick...

USA PATRIOT Act: FBI Is Underreporting Their Use Of This Law To Order Businesses to Monitor Email, Phone Calls and Financial Information

CNN reported today that a U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) audit finds the FBI is has not kept good track of how many times they have ordered businesses monitoring of emails, telephone records and financial information. The report has not...

Insider Threat Example: Wal-Mart Fires "System Technician" for Snooping On Text Messages and Taping Phone Calls

Today CNN reported Wal-Mart fired a systems technician who was "intercepting text messages of people who were not Wal-Mart employees and for recording telephone conversations with a New York Times reporter without authorization."...

Office Email Systems Are Not For Personal Use: Common Sense Reminders For Your Employees

Sunday the New York Times printed a nice article about email privacy and monitoring, "The Risk Is All Yours in Office E-Mail"...

Awareness and Training Example: Privacy Impacts Throughout the Day

There was a very interesting article in the Washington Post today, "Enjoying Technology's Conveniences But Not Escaping Its Watchful Eyes" This documentary of the day in the life of a woman shows how privacy issues are encountered throughout the day,...

12 Privacy-Impacting U.S. Federal Bills Introduced on January 4

On January 4th the 110th U.S. congress convened for the first time, and they did not waste any time introducing many new bills. 12 of them have privacy impacts. You can find more information about each of these at the...

More on Telecommunications Security: Strong Customer Identity Verification Procedures are Necessary

Since I'm on the topic of cell phone security and privacy today, I want to discuss briefly a story from yesterday on CNN, "Fan hacks Linkin singer cell data, threatens wife."...

Is There Security for Enroute Text Messages? Some Odd Incidents...

I have a couple of friends I exchange text messages with often. I always have my cell phone with me, so it's an easy way to just say "Hi!" or see how their day is going. When I'm out and...

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