All enterprises should be concerned with the security of the mobile devices their employees carry. Not only is sensitive work information stored on there, but so is personal information. At some point, however, others have to be trusted to provide secure services and protect enterprise and end-user information. One customer not satisfied with the way…
Category: U.S.
Baseball’s use of DNA raises questions (updated)
Confronted with cases of identity and age falsification by Latin American baseball prospects, Major League Baseball is conducting genetic testing on some promising young players and their parents. Many experts in genetics consider such testing a violation of personal privacy. Federal legislation, signed into law last year and scheduled to take effect Nov. 21, prohibits…
Group plans lawsuit to unveil CIA’s Pentagon Papers
The CIA and other agencies are sitting on a trove of documentary evidence of actual and suspected wrongdoing under the Bush administration, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to file a lawsuit Wednesday to force the intelligence community to come clean, the group says. At issue are the misconduct reports the spy agencies are required…
Porn actress says state intruded on privacy
A porn film actress whose positive HIV test made news in June claims [pdf] state health officials violated her rights by demanding her medical records. Filing her complaint under the name “Patient Zero,” the woman sued California OSHA and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation. Zero claims that after she tested positive for HIV, the…