January 19, 2016
Cyber criminals can obtain personal information for purpose of identity theft and to blackmail the site’s hapless owners. But the really big win is getting credit card information. Details of lots cards makes a win all the bigger. It is disastrous for Read the rest of this entry »
Hospitals, health centers and the professionals that work within them provide excellent medical services. Their privacy practices are, however, generally appalling. Notwithstanding the longstanding requirement for confidentiality the culture within parts of the medical community has been all to often to treat patient’s personal information in a cavalier fashion. Some are so silly as to Read the rest of this entry »
January 17, 2016
In the latest twist in the encryption debate the French Government has Read the rest of this entry »
January 14, 2016
Pro publica, a public interest journalism site, has a large piece offering readers to browse its website using the Tor Browser. This is an interesting development, a fairly high profile site advocating its readers to use Tor. The rationale for advocating going down this route is because Read the rest of this entry »
January 13, 2016
The friction, if not outright conflict, between government authorities wanting access to data and viable and trusted encryption is a significant ongoing Read the rest of this entry »
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 »