DHS IG calls for better RFID security
The Homeland Security Department has good control over the physical security of its radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, but the department needs to address some related vulnerabilities before those systems are completely secure, according to the...
Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame
Earlier this month AOL publicly released a data trove: 500,000 search queries culled from three months of user traffic on its search engine. The company claimed it was trying to help researchers by providing "anonymized" search information, but experts an...
AOL CTO Resigns In Privacy Flap
AOL Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern resigned on Monday and two other employees were fired in the online release of personal information on hundrends of thousands of subscribers, a snafu that sparked condemnation from privacy advocates and calls for...
Securing data by scattering the pieces
Chris Gladwin, a software designer and businessman in Chicago, had time on his hands after selling his company, the online music store Music Now, in 2004. So he decided to digitize all of the music, photos and paper detritus that he had been meaning to org...
Untying the privacy knot
A $17 million project is evaluating whether enough common ground exists in 50 sets of state health privacy laws to support one national health records exchange. It might be a long shot Digging into electronic medical records An executive order ca...
Laptops" data costly to protect
A stolen laptop might cost a company $1,000 or more to replace. But losing control of the information contained in that portable computer is far more costly - as companies in Colorado and nationwide are finding out. Matrix Capital Bank had two laptops ...
Privacy group files FTC complaint against AOL
The World Privacy Forum has filed a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against AOL, saying the company violated its own privacy policy by releasing the search records from hundreds of thousands of its members. The World Privacy Forum, a privacy adv...