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Tag Archives: Privacy
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…
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…
Privacy? What Privacy?
November 1, 2010 – 6:00 am
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It is unusual for the popular (as opposed to technical) press and particularly for The Wall Street Journal to publish a multipart series on the topic of privacy. But the WSJ did it in “What They Know: A Wall Street Journal Investigation” And I think they did a pretty good job. You can find…
Blaming the CISO … Yet Again
September 13, 2010 – 6:00 am
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Update:
Since I began writing this column, which discussed AT&T’s iPad issue, AT&T was reported to have experienced another privacy breach, this time during the heavy use of its registration site when the latest model of the iPhone became available. This was reported in The Wall…