160,000 Facebook accounts are compromised per day, and the company loosens up your privacy settings every time they update the terms of service. So claims Marc Goodman in his book, “Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It” (Doubleday). Read more on NY Post. Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this…
Category: Misc
White House releases draft bill to protect consumer data privacy
Roberta Rampton reports: The White House released draft legislation on Friday that would give consumers more control over how the trail of data they leave behind them on the internet is used, stored and sold. The 24-page “discussion draft” on data privacy immediately sparked sharp reaction from the technology industry, which said the proposal would…
We might be in a bit of a #gemalto
Daragh O’Brien has a blog post on the Gemalto security mess and what the responsibility of Irish telcos might be, as he understands it: My view is that telcos in Ireland, and potentially other EU countries, would need to inform their customers, and telcos should ideally be looking for a solution to reinstate the security…
Global Regulation of Data Flows in a Post-Snowden World
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill covered a lot of ground in her speech at the Tuck School of Business, Darthmouth College. You can read her statement here (pdf).