Items Tagged with "Privacy"
The #1 Bermuda Triangle of Patient Privacy – debunking patient data loss
January 05, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Patient data loss is a lot like planes disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle – no one really knows where the planes disappeared to, since the people on the planes never came back to tell the story. The same way we talk about patient data loss and never really consider how you can “lose” patient data and whether it can be “returned”.
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Security and Privacy in a Connected and Cloudy World
November 29, 2012
A few months ago, I was invited to present at a summit organized by the New Zealand Privacy Commission, a government organization that is tasked with setting policies to ensure citizens of New Zealand remain secure when it comes to the use of their private information...
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Privacy in Ubuntu 12.10: Full Disk Encryption
November 12, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is one of the best ways you can ensure all of the private information on your laptop stays private in case it's lost, seized, stolen, or if you choose to sell or give away your computer in the future. This feature has been built-in to many GNU/Linux distributions, including Ubuntu...
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New technologies raise serious doubts on privacy and security
November 12, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The major concerns are related to the use of cameras of video devices such as PC, mobile devices and TVs to identify the user and verify its rights for vision and of course to determine his habits with the purpose to pack it for the best offer in terms of contents...
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A Deep Dive into Facebook and Datalogix
November 06, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Facebook is partnering up with marketing company Datalogix to assess whether users go to stores in the physical world and buy the products they saw in Facebook advertisements. A lot of the reports aren’t getting into the nitty gritty of what data is actually shared between Facebook and Datalogix...
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Please Don’t Tell Me You’re Still Using SSNs as IDs!
November 05, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
I’ve been occasionally revisiting the topic of laws and regulations prohibiting the use of SSNs, most recently in 2008 when I identified over 45 U.S. federal and state laws regulating and often prohibiting, the use of SSNs as identifiers. I provide pointers at the end of this post to some other reports...
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Companies Must Consider Travel Providers’ Data Practices or Risk Being Harmed
November 04, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
A company responsible for handling billing and settlement for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has been selling flight booking information about corporate travelers — on a travel agency level — to airlines, hotels and others...
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Your Rights To Online Privacy
October 28, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Obama’s framework consists of four elements: A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, a multi-stakeholder process to specify how the principles in the Bill of Rights apply in particular contexts, effective enforcement, and a commitment to increase interoperability with the US’s international partners...
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On Security vs. Privacy
October 23, 2012
Security and privacy are sometimes used synonymously, at other times they are used as separate entities, and at other times they are used as co-dependent on each other. But what is the truth? I ended up having this discussion with Brian Honan whilst at RSA Europe and he explained his point of view...
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Discover Who’s Tracking You Online with Collusion
October 22, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
There are increasing concerns over tracking done by advertisers and website owners and recent legislation has shone a spotlight on the topic. Collusion is a great add-on for Firefox made by Mozilla that shows, in real time, how the data you share creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers...
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Apple Shareholders Demand Security Risk Reports From the Board
October 19, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Apple shareholders recently made a request of Apple’s Board of Directors to provide a report regarding how Apple and its board oversees security and privacy risks. The request cites many of the recent privacy and security issues that have plagued Apple, making headlines and even leading to litigation...
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Are You What You Tweet?
October 09, 2012 Added by:Online Privacy Foundation
The Online Privacy Foundation (OPF) encourages people to get online and consider all the great things social networking sites could do for them. But the evidence is growing that we need to think harder about how we share information online and question how that information is used...
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Six Must-Do Items to Protect Patient Privacy
October 03, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In order to prevent breaches of patient privacy, we first need to establish baseline business requirements for the organization. There are 6 business requirements for preventing patient privacy breaches, these are “must items” for any healthcare business unit manager...
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Service Agreements Kill Privacy, But Can They Create It Too?
October 03, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Fourth Amendment has not kept up with technology. And a recent case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals highlights the increasing way rights are adjudicated when it comes to data stored by other companies: through the service agreement a user enters into with a company...
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Stop the Next SOPA and CISPA: Register to Vote for Internet Freedom
September 30, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress needs to know that the Internet is watching and that users won’t sit on the sidelines as technology intended to connect us and bring knowledge to people worldwide is turned against us for the purposes of censorship and surveillance...
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Do Not Track Update: The Fight for User Privacy Continues
September 25, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF and other digital rights advocates are continuing to fight for Do Not Track, a one-click browser-based signal users can turn on to tell websites not to track their online browsing habits. In this article, we’ll be reviewing recent Congressional hearings about online tracking...