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The concern for individual privacy has been growing since the 19th century when the mass dissemination of newspapers and photography became commonplace. The concerns we had then -- the right to be left alone and the right to keep private what we choose to keep private -- are now echoed in conversations carried on today…
Protecting your identity is becoming more and more difficult. Though many people don’t stop to consider it, even the most minor conveniences can go hand in hand with an incredible amount of privacy loss. For example, Amazon recently debuted new hand scanners in stores in Seattle where you can scan your palm to make a…
If you're still using a 3G mobile network, you may want to move up to 4G - and fast! According to the Phys.org article, 3G protocols come up short in privacy, say researchers, British and German researchers "...found that 3G telephony systems pose a security weakness that results in threats to user privacy. The weakness…
Have you ever heard that it’s best to never put anything in an email that you wouldn’t want your entire company to read? It’s a good rule to keep in mind when sending an email, an instant message, or a phone message over any network, even a secure network like the one you have at work. Your data may be secure from hackers…
As I explained in previous posts on building a culture of data protection, we in the technology world must embrace data protection by design: To Reward, We Must Measure. How do we fix this? We start rewarding people for data protection activities. To reward people, we need to measure their deliverables. An enterprise-wide…
We've talked about building a culture, why it applies to all data environments, and some specific types of data protection features you should be considering. Today, we'll be considering the culture of protection the actual owners of the data (customers, employees, vendors, financial partners, etc.) expect from your…
Had a wonderful time at AWS re:Invent last week. It was great to be at an event where I was just an attendee. It's been 15 years or so since that has happened. In case you missed it, Amazon had a long list of announcements last week. I included a link in the Actuator this week that gives a summary of all the announcements.…
Who cares about privacy? The classic argument, "If you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about," has a tiny, yet important flaw. The word, wrong. Who defines what is wrong and what is not? For instance, if I were to text a crude joke to one of my friends in my contact list (as I often do) the…
Contemporary wireless technology showcases a martial relationship between security and privacy concerns; sometimes appearing to balance each other while always being leveraged to gain advantage with emerging commerce. Knowing how always implies a readiness to do—which lacks only a motive and opportunity, as any sleuth will…
I'm running NoScript for Firefox and it looks like NPM has links to google-analytics.com. I'm wondering why this is incorporated into a system that is designed to run on internal corporate networks.
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