I received a provacative question on Twitter last week from idExperts, “If you had a wish list of rights for identity theft victims, what would that be?”
Sounds like a great blog topic! 🙂 Here are my thoughts…
Archive for the ‘Privacy Incidents’ Category
Rights for Privacy Breach Victims
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Insider Threat: Horrible Tragedy Highlights Need For Policies & Training
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009I got the June 1 issue of Newsweek today, and something that’s bothered me ever since I first heard about it was on page 4…
Privacy Breach Lesson: Encrypt Mobile Digital PII!
Monday, April 6th, 2009Once more, here is an example of how carelessness and/or a mistake leads to a privacy breach…
Computer Fraud Criminal Sentenced To 4 1/2 Yrs Jailtime + US$1.6 Million
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Would you notice a $20 – $30 fraudulent charge mixed in with a lot of other charges…most people have more than 10 according to a financial fraud expert friend…on your credit card statement?
It looks like in Bulgaria they really lower the sanctions boom on those committing computer fraud..
UK Company Caught Selling Their Employees’ & Job Applicants’ PII
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Here’s an interesting shocking story about some bad…make that VERY BAD…business decisions in the UK to make money by selling employees’, and job applicants’, personally identifiable information (PII) as a revenue stream…
31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I’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…
31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I’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…
31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I’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…
HIPAA Violations: Nurses Allegedly Post X-Ray Photos To Facebook
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Okay, here’s a perfect real incident to use for a case study to argue discuss whether or not this is a HIPAA violation!
Employee Suing Starbucks For Poor Security & Laptop Theft
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Here’s an interesting progression in how to address the growing data breaches that occur largely from ignored, overlooked, and/or inadequate security practices…
