Two police chiefs suspected of snooping for tabloid fodder at the home of a surrogate mother for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been arrested on undisclosed charges. A special prosecutor has been looking into whether the eastern Ohio chiefs illegally entered the woman’s home in May, when she wasn’t there, but it…
Time to Raise the White Flag on PII
Grand pronouncements can define an era, or at least crystallize provocative sentiment. In 1966, a New York Times headline proclaimed, “God is Dead.” In the early 90s Bill Gates infamously said, “banks are dinosaurs.” Neither of these really panned out, but here’s one that might: in June, Tower Group’s George Tubin declared banks have “lost…
Ads get much more personal
For all the concern and uproar over online privacy, marketers and data companies have always known much more about consumers’ offline lives, like income, credit score, home ownership, even what car they drive and whether they have a hunting license. Recently, some of these companies have started connecting this mountain of information to consumers’ browsers….
P2P ban plan for govt gets mixed response
A proposal to introduce a bill seeking to formally ban the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on government and contractor networks is evoking a mixed response. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) yesterday announced his intention to introduce such a bill, after he, and other members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee heard…