The Future of Privacy
Nine out of ten Americans want their banks to monitor their online accounts for signs of suspicious behavior, much as credit card companies do now, a survey published Tuesday said. Conducted by RSA Security, the poll also found that although consumers ar...
Biometrics unreliable, says EU privacy head
Six months after Hurricane Katrina struck, federal, state and local emergency responders still lack interoperable communications, emergency management technology experts say. Richard Skinner, the Homeland Security Department"s inspector general, told t...
Americans Want Banks To Spy On Their Accounts
As the General Services Administration continues work on improvements to the Federal Procurement Data System—Next Generation, the agency will accept comments on the system"s privacy standards through June 2, according to a notice published in toda...
Interoperability still plagues DHS
A new bill would increase port security through measures including running all cargo containers through radiation portal monitors, providing risk-based funding through a dedicated port security grant and checking all port employees with access to secure ar...
GSA seeks comment on procurement data privacy
As more companies disclose information losses and data theft, information technology companies have entered the market to sell products that encrypt entire hard drives. Those companies argue that encrypting all data on a disk is the best way to protect...
Legislation would increase port securit
"When you have state agencies putting this stuff online, you are spoon feeding criminals valuable information," says Betty Ostergren, a privacy activist whose husband was a victim of identity theft in 1987 and 1989. "And they can be anywhere in the world -...
Encrypt data or encrypt disk? You decide
A new system of protecting sensitive data while it is being transmitted over fiberoptic cables has been described by its University of Toronto inventors as “the protective equivalent of a fire-breathing dragon." The researchers described how th...