Ignorance or “we don't need to think about that...”?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070529194535714
Priority One Credit Union's Security Breach
Tuesday, May 29 2007 @ 07:45 PM CDT - Contributed by: PrivacyNews - Breaches
I'm watching my credit union account like a hawk. That's because Priority One Credit Union -- the one I use -- had a security breach that was stunning.
They recently sent election ballots to members. Printed on the outside of the envelope were some numbers. The first was our account number.
That might not have been enough to help with anyone intent on identity theft, so they also printed my social security number on the envelope.
Source - PCWorld
Related - Priority One Notification
Looks like a real simple way to make the news... Good for Ags with political aspirations, bad for businesses with bad habits.
Texas AG's trash trawlers bag checks for sixth ID-protection suit
by Rob Luke 5/29/2007
Greg Abbott announces action against Check 'n Go
AUSTIN -- It's a rare fisherman who shifts from where the fish are biting, no matter how bad it might smell there.
So Texas retailers have discovered with state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who last Thursday announced his sixth suit in the past two months against stores who toss customer ID records into their backyard trash bins.
Related Dumpster Diving goes international – perhaps it will become an Olympic sport?
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/67537.html
Sensitive information on Dutch royal family found in rubbish dump
Posted on : 2007-05-30 | Author : DPA News Category : Europe
Amsterdam - The Dutch government will take measures to prevent classified information about the royal family from becoming public after journalists found sensitive material in rubbish deposited by the queen's office, reports said Wednesday. Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende announced the measures on Tuesday evening, after a TV current affairs programme had shown how the secretarial office of Queen Beatrix in The Hague deposits its rubbish, including classified information about the royal family, in a dumpster accessible to the general public.
No doubt they started working on them in 1939...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070529062410111
SSA finalizes revision of privacy and disclosure rules
Tuesday, May 29 2007 @ 06:45 AM CDT - Contributed by: PrivacyNews - Fed. Govt.
The Social Security Administration has finalized its revision of the privacy and disclosure rules to provide regulatory support for new and existing responsibilities and functions. According to the agency's announcement, the "changes in the regulations will increase Agency efficiency and ensure consistency in the implementation of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) policies and responsibilities under the Privacy Act and the Social Security Act." The new rules become effective on May 29, 2007.
Source - Wolters Kluwer
Relying on their ignorance...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2138285,00.asp
Spam Attack Steals High-Level Execs' Data
By Brian Prince May 29, 2007
The Better Business Bureau has issued a fraud alert regarding the resurgence of a spam attack that targets high-level executives in various industries.
Another story of ignorance... (And more of Best Buy's “customer service”)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685
Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills
Best Buy customer on being jailed: 'At this point, I'm a mass murderer'
Posted: April 7, 2005 5:12 p.m. Eastern
A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency's legitimacy and called police.
I doubt most small businesses are any better...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2138128,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Survey: Schools at Risk for E-Discovery-related Litigation
May 29, 2007 By Chris Preimesberger
A new survey of IT administrators of kindergarten through 12th grade schools indicates that 90 percent of them have no plan in place to handle the newly mandated retention of electronically stored information by the federal court system.
The findings came as a result of a customer survey released May 29 by storage vendor CommVault in Oceanport, N.J.
The amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (PDF), went into effect on Dec. 1, 2006. The new regulations, sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2006, require organizations—for-profit and non-profit alike—to be able to quickly find such data when required by the federal court.
This means that every electronic document stored by an organization—e-mail, instant messages, financials, voice mail and all text and graphical documents—must be retrievable in a "reasonable" amount of time, which the court further defined as 30 days.
In the CommVault survey, only two-thirds of responding IT managers indicated that they are even aware of the amended federal court rules.
Further, the survey revealed that 90 percent of schools have yet to initiate an FRCP compliance-preparedness plan.
Eighty Percent Unclear on the Concept
Eighty percent of the administrators surveyed said they are unclear about their governing school district's e-discovery policies, CommVault said.
... For more information on CommVault and its survey, go here.
One side of the argument...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014953.html
May 29, 2007
Report on The Dangers of Domestic Spying by Federal Law Enforcement
ACLU: History Repeated: The Dangers of Domestic Spying by Federal Law Enforcement, (63 pages, PDF).
See also related postings on domestic surveillance program
Very interesting idea. Why haven't other groups done this before? (Not just lawyers...)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014943.html
May 29, 2007
New Website Offers Lawyers Easy Access to Pro Bono Opportunities
ABA press release: "Helping lawyers find opportunities for meaningful pro bono work in their communities is the goal of a project jointly sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, the ABA Center for Pro Bono and Pro Bono Net. The National Pro Bono Opportunities Guide provides listings of more than 1,100 programs from across the United States that need volunteer lawyers. Through the directory’s convenient search option, lawyers can find programs based on location, area of law, the population served and CLE credits for training or service. Users can also pinpoint projects that require their skills and experience with features highlighting opportunities for transactional lawyers, litigators, law students and others...Pro Bono Net (PBN) is a national nonprofit organization based in New York City that works to increase access to justice for the millions of low income people who face legal problems every year without help from a lawyer. Founded in 1998 with support from the Open Society Institute, PBN has created a broad and powerful network of nonprofit legal aid providers, courts and bar associations across the United States."
I think I've mentioned this before...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014946.html
May 29, 2007
GAO Report on Evaluated DHS Privacy Office
DHS Privacy Office: Progress Made but Challenges Remain in Notifying and Reporting to the Public GAO-07-522, April 27, 2007:" The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office was established with the appointment of the first Chief Privacy Officer in April 2003, as required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The Privacy Office's major responsibilities include: (1) reviewing and approving privacy impact assessments (PIA)--analyses of how personal information is managed in a federal system, (2) integrating privacy considerations into DHS decision making, (3) ensuring compliance with the Privacy Act of 1974, and (4) preparing and issuing annual reports and reports on key privacy concerns."
On occasion, someone sends me the odd quotation that I find amusing, so I pass it along.
Following is the winning entry from an annual contest calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term: Political Correctness.
"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is
entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
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