January 12, 2016
Uber has settled an investigation by the New York Attorney General arising from using its app to monitor the whereabouts of passengers. The financial penalty aspect of the settlement is Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes facts make fiction look so inadequate. Take the Buzzfeed story that the Daily Telegraph managers placed monitors on the underside of journalists desks. The monitors are Read the rest of this entry »
January 11, 2016
The lack of privacy protection that has been built into regulations regarding the use of drones has been a major public policy failing in Australia and the United States. In the US Read the rest of this entry »
Readers of this blog would know the regularity of data breaches throughout the world in 2015. Itgovernance in List of data breaches and cyber attacks in 2015 – over 480 million leaked records has actually tabulated the volume of the records leaked or compromised by those breaches. The best guess is that 487,731,758 records were leaked on line.
With poor regulation and no data breach notification laws in Australia it is difficult to get an accurate idea of Read the rest of this entry »
In the 80s and 90s police were heavily, and correctly, criticised for racial profiling when doing stop and searches, car checks and general patrolling. It is the subject of considerable controversy and judicial analysis. While less used (and obvious) than previously, it is still an unfortunate practice Read the rest of this entry »
January 7, 2016
The BBC reports that Intel at the 2016 CES tech show has revealed a collision avoiding drone in CES 2016: Intel drone dodges ‘falling tree’ on stage. Having a drone that is Read the rest of this entry »
Never let it be said that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) doesn’t have a sense of humour. When it took issue with a Henry Shein Practice Solutions Inc’s claim that its software encrypted dental patients’ data its press release was FTC takes on toothless encryption claims for dental practice software. Nice.
What is more of a worry is Read the rest of this entry »
As far as data breaches go 2015 was a banner year. The list of breaches is long. The amount of personal information accessed was significant, with the breach of the Office of Personal Management being the biggest in US history, involving theft of the personally identifiable information of some 21.5 million current and former federal employees and Read the rest of this entry »
January 5, 2016
The story about the Jamie Briggs being sacked for inappropriate behaviour with a public servant in a Hong Kong Bar has segued into a story about the publication, and republication of a photograph of that public servant into the media. The issue is now being described as a breach of privacy.
And it is. As described in Jamie Briggs photo leak a ‘gross breach of privacy’. The problem is Read the rest of this entry »
January 2, 2016
Slate in 2015 Was the Year of the Drone does a very good breezy, summation of the impact of drones Read the rest of this entry »