Paul Ohm, who has highlighted the problems with supposedly anonymized data, has published a forceful commentary on Netflix’s recent announcement of their new contest. Ohm writes, in part: Although I give Netflix a pass for its past privacy breach, I am astonished to learn from the New York Times that the company plans a second…
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Gmail Breach Lawsuit Can’t Be Secret, Judge Says
Thomas Claburn reports on an interesting breach-related lawsuit. Apparently, a Rocky Mountain Bank employee accidentally sent a confidential file containing customer names, addresses, tax identification numbers, and loan information for over 1,300 individuals and business clients to the wrong Gmail address. When the bank tried to contact the recipient of the errant email to…
Police ready to ‘take on’ commenters, chief says
Tony Plohetski reports: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo says he and some of his officers have been harassed, lied about and had their identities falsely used in online blogs and in reader comment sections on local media Internet sites. They’ve had enough. In a meeting this month with department brass, Acevedo and the group discussed…
TSA needs privacy IT tools, IG says
Alice Lipowicz reports: The Transportation Security Administration should deploy automated tools to test and monitor the effectiveness of privacy safeguards in its programs, according to a new report from Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner. In a report issued Sept. 18, Skinner recommended that TSA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer implement such tools, and…