I’ve been running across many interesting and useful news reports and pieces of information over the past few days, and putting them out on my Twitter peeps/tweeps/tweets/etc. For posterity and my own future reference, here’s a listing of the ones from the past few days I want to be able to look back upon without paging through multiple posts on my PrivacyProf account…
- Slippery slope of privacy, great possibilities, abuses & errors: “Face Recognition: Clever or Just Plain Creepy?” http://tinyurl.com/ccul9e
- Law would make electronic = paper: “Electronic medical records legislation clears N.M. Senate” http://tinyurl.com/asttnb info errors within
- A great resource: “Computer Security Handbook Fifth Edition is ready” http://tinyurl.com/ab6ftr
- I’m spking at Des Moines ISACA: “The Convergence of Information Security, Privacy and Compliance” http://tinyurl.com/dgl8rd Come if you can!
- For data mining, voting, etc.: “How to Share without Spilling the Beans A new protocol aims to protect privacy…” http://tinyurl.com/bfq3bx
- Anonymity on the Internet MD court ruling: “Media Need Not Reveal Web Posters’ Identities” http://tinyurl.com/ctzy6x
- Interesting: “White House ditches YouTube after privacy complaints” http://tinyurl.com/ak7kqf YT privacy policy in process of changing
- Whoa! Didn’t see this on the U.S. news: “Space rock makes close approach” http://tinyurl.com/cqujud 1/5 of distance ‘tween Earth and Moon!
- Trends & stats: “Black Book of Outsourcing 2009: The Year of Outsourcing Dangerously” http://tinyurl.com/cvackn
- Wouldn’t there be backup tapes somewhere…? “Court papers: 92 interrogation tapes destroyed by CIA” http://tinyurl.com/ataefk
- Security budget & resources being cut to save $$: “As the Economy Sinks, Data Breaches Rise” http://tinyurl.com/assjzr
- “Crime Beat: Combating Organized Crime Taking Backseat” http://tinyurl.com/ajgoys
- Great idea! “Nashville diners swipe own credit cards to avert ID theft” http://tinyurl.com/aah2fc
- 60 day review of U.S. data infrastructure security: “Cyber review underway” http://tinyurl.com/ao8ssw Target completion end of April
- 5 schemes/apps in past 7 days stealing confidential data: “Facebook users suffer viral surge” http://tinyurl.com/d2x2e3
- “Software for returning your laptop if it is ever stolen or lost” http://tinyurl.com/bt4hw5
- Yes, require consent to play 911 calls for the public: “Commentary: The people’s right to gawk?” http://tinyurl.com/dxmm72
- Interesting news, events & speaking opportunities in Feb issue of IEEE Women in Engineering: http://tinyurl.com/arqzop
- EU criminals not using Skype et al to hide from taps as reported last week? “Eurojust Retracts VoIP Allegations” http://tinyurl.com/dg9up5
- Particularly, what will happen to NSPD-59/HSPD-24, which had significant privacy concerns? http://tinyurl.com/clgadq The page is now gone.
- U.S. site to track gov’t biometrics activities, http://www.biometrics.gov/, was created under Bush. How will it change under Obama?
- Need to share biometrics data weakens use of biometrics for security: “The Myth of Biometrics Enhanced Security” http://tinyurl.com/ded4pt
- Privacy and opt-in consent issues: “Advertiser tracking of Web surfing brings suits” http://tinyurl.com/a9qdv9
- Tweets reveal lack of security at NZ broadcast company: “Sky embarrassed as CEO’s account defaced” http://tinyurl.com/avjm2e
- Copyright holder opt-out allowed: “Amazon Modifies Kindle Text-to-Speech Feature” http://tinyurl.com/dbdkpg
- In Tehran re Obama’s helicopter blueprints: “Pennsylvania Company Discovers Marine One Security Breach” http://tinyurl.com/aelfeo
- KEWL! 2 billion ones & zeros in 1 second: “The New Weapon Against ID Theft: Lasers” http://tinyurl.com/bz69tj
- #1 no surprise; ‘One Laptop’ actually is doing good, though: “Microsoft Vista voted tech world’s top “Fiasco”” http://tinyurl.com/be96kx
- Novel idea! Add an electricity jolt too? 🙂 “Security software that gives laptop thieves an earful” http://tinyurl.com/b23lvo
- Document from Scotland removed after BBC questions privacy: “Council in u-turn on job minutes” http://tinyurl.com/b8pxca
- NIST new version of “Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide (SP 800-81)” http://tinyurl.com/b5r5ft
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