The media attention and backlash over Bozeman, Montana requiring job applicants to provide their login passwords to social networking sites has resulted in the city rescinding its policy. The Montana News Station reports: A change in Bozmean’s city hiring policy — two days and one worldwide reaction after we broke the story, Bozeman will no…
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Black Hat 2009
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Training July 25-28 Briefings July 29-30 More info on program here.
IPAM Workshop: Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy
Location: Los Angeles, California The goal of workshop is to establish a coherent theoretical foundation for research on data privacy. This implies work on (1) how the conflicting goals of privacy and utility can or should be formulated mathematically; and (2) how the constraints of privacy—in their various incarnations—affect the accuracy of statistical inference and…
Employee Privacy Violated?
If you join an invite-only forum and post about work from your own home computer on your own time, can your employer fire you for joining the forum? Fox News interviews an employee who is suing over that issue in the first clip below. CNN’s clip piece on the story, below, provides a response from…