Archive for the ‘Privacy Incidents’ Category

Rights for Privacy Breach Victims

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

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…

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Insider Threat: Horrible Tragedy Highlights Need For Policies & Training

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I 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…

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Privacy Breach Lesson: Encrypt Mobile Digital PII!

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Once more, here is an example of how carelessness and/or a mistake leads to a privacy breach…

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Computer Fraud Criminal Sentenced To 4 1/2 Yrs Jailtime + US$1.6 Million

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Would 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..

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UK Company Caught Selling Their Employees’ & Job Applicants’ PII

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Here’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…

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31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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…

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31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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…

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31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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…

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HIPAA Violations: Nurses Allegedly Post X-Ray Photos To Facebook

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Okay, here’s a perfect real incident to use for a case study to argue discuss whether or not this is a HIPAA violation!

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Employee Suing Starbucks For Poor Security & Laptop Theft

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Here’s an interesting progression in how to address the growing data breaches that occur largely from ignored, overlooked, and/or inadequate security practices…

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