A new study conducted by Ponemon, “2010 Privacy Trust Study of the United States Government,” reveals that Americans have less trust in the government’s commitment to protect our privacy than we did when the survey was conducted in 2004. Privacy trust declined from an average of 52% in 2005 to 38% in 2009. The survey…
Category: Govt
HM Courts Service staff breached government database of personal information
Mark Ballard reports: Staff working for Her Majesty’s Courts Service have breached security on the government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. Also, local authorities sacked 26 employees last year for snooping on personal data stored on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS), which, with 90…
NSA Denies It Will Spy on Utilities
Ryan Singel writes: The NSA is denying a report from the Wall Street Journal that a secret program code-named “Perfect Citizen” will be monitoring civilian networks. That’s from a rare public statement by the ultra-secret agency responsible for spying on outsiders and defending classified networks. The NSA, as a wing of the military, is largely…
Legal Group: Gays shouldn’t answer Pentagon survey
Pauline Jelinek of the Associated Press reports: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is urging gays in the military to answer a Pentagon survey on the policy that bans them from serving openly, but advocacy groups worry the poll may be biased against gays or that those who participate could be exposed and expelled. “I strongly encourage…