Posts Tagged ‘surveillance’

USA PATRIOT Act: FBI Is Underreporting Their Use Of This Law To Order Businesses to Monitor Email, Phone Calls and Financial Information

Friday, March 9th, 2007

CNN reported today that a U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) audit finds the FBI is has not kept good track of how many times they have ordered businesses monitoring of emails, telephone records and financial information. The report has not yet been posted to the DoJ site but is supposed to be released sometime today.
According to the CNN report:

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Insider Threat Example: Wal-Mart Fires “System Technician” for Snooping On Text Messages and Taping Phone Calls

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Today CNN reported Wal-Mart fired a systems technician who was “intercepting text messages of people who were not Wal-Mart employees and for recording telephone conversations with a New York Times reporter without authorization.”

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Office Email Systems Are Not For Personal Use: Common Sense Reminders For Your Employees

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Sunday the New York Times printed a nice article about email privacy and monitoring, “The Risk Is All Yours in Office E-Mail

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Awareness and Training Example: Privacy Impacts Throughout the Day

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

There was a very interesting article in the Washington Post today, “Enjoying Technology’s Conveniences But Not Escaping Its Watchful Eyes
This documentary of the day in the life of a woman shows how privacy issues are encountered throughout the day, and how virtually all of us leave a bit of ourselves, and along with it our privacy, whenever we get online, make purchases from stores, make phone calls, or do any number of things in virtually any place.

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12 Privacy-Impacting U.S. Federal Bills Introduced on January 4

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

On January 4th the 110th U.S. congress convened for the first time, and they did not waste any time introducing many new bills. 12 of them have privacy impacts. You can find more information about each of these at the THOMAS (Library of Congress) site. However, as of today (1/10/2007), the full texts for most of these bills are not yet available online.
From the Senate:

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More on Telecommunications Security: Strong Customer Identity Verification Procedures are Necessary

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Since I’m on the topic of cell phone security and privacy today, I want to discuss briefly a story from yesterday on CNN, “Fan hacks Linkin singer cell data, threatens wife.”

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Is There Security for Enroute Text Messages? Some Odd Incidents…

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

I have a couple of friends I exchange text messages with often. I always have my cell phone with me, so it’s an easy way to just say “Hi!” or see how their day is going. When I’m out and about and see something interesting (buildings, plants, etc.), unusual (clothing or hairdos of people traveling in airports, etc.), or downright weird (“exotic” food I’ve ordered at restaurants, etc.), I like to take a photo and send it attached to a text message to one or more of my friends just to share the moment.

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