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Category Archives: Privacy
Security Innovation – Trying to Change the Game
May 10, 2011 – 6:00 am
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It’s never pleasant to receive a somewhat negative book review, but such reviews often point the way to future improvements. As Theodore Roosevelt once said, “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
So that’s how I felt about Robert M. Slade’s review of the…
Is the End-User to Blame for the Lack of Security?
February 7, 2011 – 6:00 am
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I recently read James Bamford’s book The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, which, as the subtitle suggests, is a history and an exposé of the NSA (National Security Agency). It is certainly a book that should be read by privacy advocates and those…
What Do They NOT Know?
January 31, 2011 – 6:00 am
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And the answer is … less and less. The Wall Street Journal’s series “What They Know,” which is an exposé of privacy “violations” on the Web, has been running since July 30, 2010. The thirteenth column in the series was published on December 18, 2010. I previously mentioned this…
Eventually Your Online Identity Will Disappear
January 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
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I began drafting this column some time ago, but had not posted it. Then an article by Rob Walker appeared in The New York Times Magazine on January 9, 2011 about the preservation of one’s digital self. The title of the piece is “Things to Do in Cyberspace When You’re Dead,” and it…
Those Data are Mine(d)
January 17, 2011 – 6:00 am
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The “What They Know” series in The Wall Street Journal continues and is commendably relentless in its reporting of the growing compromises of personal data. Periodically and quite frequently, the WSJ publishes an article on how our privacy is being gnawed away many millions of records at a…