Posts Tagged ‘ABC News’

Lessons from 3 Organizations That Made 3 Privacy Mistakes

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

Even with the number of privacy breaches increasing, and with numbers of privacy sanctions coming from the FTC and other regulatory agencies and courts snowballing for companies doing irresponsible things with personal information, putting growing numbers of individuals at risk of identity fraud as well as physical safety risks, companies are still asking for way too much unnecessary and sensitive personal information purely for their marketing purposes.

And too many online media outlets, often reporting on or promoting these marketing efforts, are perpetuating these very bad privacy practices. Then, so they will not upset their advertisers, they actually are deleting comments that point out how bad those marketing and data collection practices are.  I recently just experienced such a situation with (more…)

Dairy Queen Will Trade Your Privacy and Safety for Free Ice-cream Cake!

Friday, May 9th, 2014

This morning I heard that in honor of Mother’s Day, Dairy Queen would give you a free cake if you would just send them an email with your baby’s birth certificate attached. What!?  Did I hear correctly? So, I did a search, and sure enough, there it was; on a list on the ABC News Blog (see screen image below): (more…)

Hackers Are “Rattlesnakes Without the Rattles”

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Research into the psychology of hackers has been going on ever since Cap’n Crunch cereal whistles were used to make free phone calls to anywhere in the world.
I saw the ABC News article…

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