Emily Chasan reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is exploring reforms that could provide companies with more information about the identity of their shareholders, a top agency official said on Wednesday. Companies usually have little information about stockholders due to long-standing practices about shareholder anonymity, and many would like better ways to contact them….
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Texas Woman Sues Facebook for Privacy Violations (Updated)
Worried about your privacy online? So is a woman from Texas, who’s suing Facebook and Blockbuster for posting too much information about her online. Cathryn Harris found out after the fact that Facebook added a note every time she rented a movie from Blockbuster — a note that contained her full name and the name…
A social engineering demonstration
I saw this social engineering demonstration on YouTube today. Stick with it it although you may find much of it sophomoric and/or annoying. What it demonstrates is that a collection agency, given a phone number by someone who calls in to them, then gives a caller the address and credit information to go with the…
Privacy by Design: Essential for Organizational Accountability and Strong Business Practices
From the introduction to the paper (pdf): Professor Paul A. Schwartz recently wrote: “Companies are now putting internal policies in place, centered on forward looking rules of information management and training of personnel. Such policies are, at the very least, a necessary precondition for an effective accountability regime that develops a high level of privacy…