Friday, May 17th, 2013
In a series about cyber compliance issues, the Wall Street Journal takes a look at how collecting enormous amounts of data, without securing the private or sensitive information, can lead to large problems when there are security breaches: It’s well-known that many companies aren’t aware when they have had their ...
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
To recap: In 2009, Google came under fire for its Street View product, where the online services giant photographed homes and other buildings in numerous countries as part of its online mapping service, as individuals said the photos invaded their privacy. Then, in 2010, Google announced that, for more than three years — in more than 30 ...
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Social media is a pivotal platform for free speech protected by the First and Fourth Amendments. As Americans, we should be free to express ourselves online without fearing that our personal information and communications will end up in government hands – unless law enforcement obtains a probable cause warrant. ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2013
To recap: In February, the Wall Street Journal reported on new research by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer that showed four companies seeking to circumvent consumers’ privacy settings in Apple’s browser, Safari. The four companies are: Google, Vibrant Media, Media Innovation Group and PointRoll. Google said the circumvention was a mistake and it disabled the code, but there was (pdf) ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Politico takes a look at what the retirement of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) will mean for privacy legislation. As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Rockefeller has held hearings on issues such as “The Need for Privacy Protections: Is Industry Self-Regulation Adequate?”; he opened an investigation into data brokers — companies that collect and sell data on ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the privacy issues that can arise as companies identify individuals and tie them to their online browsing and shopping: Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW. So recently he sent a note to a showroom near Atlanta, using ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the privacy issues that can arise as companies identify individuals and tie them to their online browsing and shopping: Georgia resident Andy Morar is in the market for a BMW. So recently he sent a note to a showroom near Atlanta, using ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
The Wall Street Journal reports on the security and privacy issues that can arise as businesses allow employees to use personal devices, such as cellphones and computers, as work devices: Over the past three years, small companies have outpaced big ones in letting workers use personal laptops, tablets and cellphones ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
We’ve discussed targeted behavioral advertising before in the context of online and offline data collection and tracking of the habits of consumers. There have been numerous news stories about this surveillance issue. For example, after the Wall Street Journal reported last year that credit-card companies Visa and MasterCard “are pushing into a new business: using what they know about people’s credit-card purchases for targeting ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
We’ve discussed before how social-networking data — from sites such as MySpace and Facebook — have been used to gather evidence in trials against jurors and defendants, in divorce cases, against employees (which can lead to lawsuits), applicants to colleges and graduate schools, politicians and high school students. We’ve seen it affect applicants to jobs in the United States and abroad. Now, the Wall Street Journal looks into the issue of students’ online statements being ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
The Wall Street Journal reports on moves by social-networking site Facebook to “sell[] access to its users” to marketers: Facebook Inc. is experimenting with new ways to leverage its greatest asset—personal data on about 900 million people—reigniting concerns about privacy. The strategy: selling access to its users. To amp up ...
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security’s Chief Privacy Officer, Mary Ellen Callahan, is leaving her position, the Wall Street Journal reports. Here’s the DHS press release from when Callahan was appointed. The Journal reports: Mary Ellen Callahan, the chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security, is leaving the administration ...
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