Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'surveillance'
We had a very interesting discussion on Twitter this morning about the practice of automatically photographing license plates to use for parking, tickets, etc......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 2, 2009 7:18 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 3, 2009 7:48 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 4, 2009 3:43 PM
Well, you knew this type of abuse would happen sooner or later......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 31, 2008 5:37 PM
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......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 24, 2008 10:50 AM
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......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 14, 2008 9:49 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 4, 2008 12:29 PM
Here's an interesting, relatively new, privacy (with regard to publicity any way) issue that was reported today: locational privacy......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 4, 2008 8:44 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 15, 2008 12:25 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 5, 2008 9:16 AM
Here's something scary... I just saw a new CNN report that made me go, "Huh?!" "FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping"...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 4, 2008 4:36 PM
There was some very interesting news in the Kansas City Star today; "Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act"...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 6, 2007 7:51 PM
And another very interesting USA Today article, "Japan will research Net replacement."...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 30, 2007 5:53 PM
A very interesting article in USA Today caught my eye, "Beijing police will patrol Web virtually"...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 30, 2007 2:29 PM
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"...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 27, 2007 1:00 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 28, 2007 8:38 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 8, 2007 8:34 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 4, 2007 7:50 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 30, 2007 7:24 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 9, 2007 8:48 AM
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."...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 5, 2007 5:17 PM
Sunday the New York Times printed a nice article about email privacy and monitoring, "The Risk Is All Yours in Office E-Mail"...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 4, 2007 8:37 PM
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,...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 16, 2007 9:12 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 10, 2007 10:33 AM
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."...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 28, 2006 7:33 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 28, 2006 9:17 AM
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