Maya T. Prabhu reports: A case that will be argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in November could set a precedent that affects the way educators and other public employees use their eMail. The court has agreed to hear a case that will determine whether the public’s right to know what its government is doing…
US hacker pleads guilty for TJX identify fraud scandal
Desire Athow reports: 28-year old former FBI Informant Albert Gonzalez has pleaded guilty to 20 federal charges that identify him as the brain behind what now stands as the biggest identity theft in US history. The hacker, who lives in Miami, could face up to a minimum of 15 years in prison although the jury…
Personal information sharing upsets open shop association
Richard Gilbert reports: The Industry Training Authority (ITA) in B.C. shared detailed information about apprenticed employees with public and private trades training institutes, which has outraged members of the local non-union contractors association. “It is offensive to the open shop sector to give out the names, addresses, telephone numbers, the level the apprentices were at…
Designing the personal data stream: Enabling participatory privacy in mobile personal sensing
The Abstract from Designing the Personal Data Stream: Enabling Participatory Privacy in Mobile Personal Sensing by Katie Shilton, Jeffrey A. Burke, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, Mark Hansen, Jerry Kang, and Min Mun: For decades, the Codes of Fair Information Practice have served as a model for data privacy, protecting personal information collected by governments and…