There’s a new report by Kristin Finklea, Specialist in Domestic Security, for the Congressional Research Service. Here’s the Summary: In the current fiscal environment, policymakers are increasingly concerned with securing the economic health of the United States—including combating those crimes that threaten to undermine the nation’s financial stability. Identity theft is one such crime. In 2012, about 12.6 million Americans…
Category: Breaches
Danger Posed by Student Data Breaches Prompts Action
Benjamin Herold of McClatchy News Service has a must-read report on student privacy and data-sharing. It begins: Privacy advocates say the increased collection, storage, and sharing of educational data pose real threats to children and families, from identify theft to nuisance advertising, misguided profiling to increased surveillance of everyday activities. There is even the potential…
CME Companies Tracking M.D.s’ Personal Information
Vabren Watts reports: Medical communication companies (MCCs) are doing more than offering online continuing medical education (CME) courses to physicians—the companies may be monitoring clinicians’ website behavior as well. Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health and the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia University investigated the financial relationship between…
UK breach reports to the ICO in 2013 – analyses
The Information Commissioner’s Office posted some stats on breach trends yesterday: We use this page to show trends in statistics for data breaches reported to the ICO. We now have statistics for the first three quarters of this year, covering from April to December 2013. The latest update shows the continued trend of more incidents,…