When you don't control your data (inventory, access rules, a plan!) you wind up in situations like this – where you repeatedly announce ever larger volumes of lost data. In short, you sound like a fool (or at best , an incompetent manager.)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070620165628541
Ohio Update: Strickland: Taxpayer info also on stolen computer tape
Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 04:56 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Gov. Ted Strickland announced Wednesday that up to 225,000 taxpayers' personal information was also on the computer data tape that was recently stolen from a part-time intern's car. So far, information on nearly 500,000 Ohioans is confirmed to be on the stolen device.
Strickland disclosed Wednesday that the data tape included:
— up to 225,000 names and Social Security numbers of Ohioans with uncashed tax refund checks issued in 2005, 2006 and through May 29, 2007.
— 602 Ohio Lottery winners who have not cashed their checks
— 2,488 Ohioans with uncashed checks of unclaimed funds
— names and bank account numbers for 650 to 1,000 electronic fund transfer transactions that were rejected.
Source - Dayton Daily News
...for further investigation...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070620184015203
American pilots protest security breach on company Web site
Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 06:40 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Personal information including Social Security numbers of more than 300 pilots and other employees at American Airlines, including the chief executive, was exposed on a company Web site, according to the pilots' union.
The company said it determined that only pilots and union officials saw the information on a password-protected internal site.
Source - Associated Press
This is the future. Live with it!
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2007062017191674
N.J. ID Theft Bill Stirs Insurers’ Ire
Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 05:19 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: State/Local Govt.
New Jersey property-casualty insurance firms and other industries are objecting to a proposed regulation that would require the installation of what they term expensive and uniform information security systems.
The Division of Consumer Affairs recently closed the comment period on the new rule it has put forward to implement the Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2005.
Richard Stokes, regional manager for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), said his group and other industry trade groups have expressed concern about the security systems, based on federal standards, that must be emplaced by all businesses regardless of size.
Source - National Underwriter
Related - The New Jersey Consumer Affairs Division Has Gone Too Far, Says PCI
Before we laugh at “le frogs,” perhaps we should look around our own organizations. Would a threat of “immediate termination” stop tis practice?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070619/173120.shtml
French Officials Can't Resist Their Crackberries, Even If It Means Giving Secrets To American Spies
from the must...-use...-crackberry dept
We've all heard the RIM Blackberry referred to as a "Crackberry" for its supposedly addictive nature... however, we never thought that it was true that anyone really couldn't do without their Blackberry mobile device. Apparently the French government has banned the devices for certain government officials who might email sensitive information. Since RIM has all emails run through its own servers, some of which reside in the US, the French government is worried (perhaps reasonably so) that American spies are snooping on their sensitive emails. However, apparently many French government officials just can't let go and are still using Blackberry devices on the sly... even if it means sending classified info. What's odd is that various officials say they can't find anything else that works quite like the Blackberry, even though there are more and more solutions that do -- and many of them don't require emails to go through special servers in the US.
Wow! This is like free money! If I sue 10 spammers a month, I'll be richer that Bill gates in 3.2 years!
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070620171535496
Lawsuit shows how to sue spammers
Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 05:15 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: In the Courts
news analysis A recent decision in a lawsuit filed against a Florida credit counseling company offers a promising road map to follow for suing spammers.
After receiving at least nine unsolicited e-mail messages offering credit counseling services, Washington state resident Joseph Hylkema did more than just consign the spam to his junk mail folder: he decided to get even.
Source - C|net
Ubiquitous surveillance: This will continue to happen, I guarantee it!
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070620171733975
Belk employees' lawsuit over hidden cameras heads to trial
Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 05:17 PM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Workplace Privacy
Belk department store managers allowed four cosmetics employees to continue changing in a stockroom for months after installing a hidden video camera, an Athens lawyer said in court Monday.
A jury trial to decide a lawsuit the employees filed in 2005 against Belk and several managers began Monday afternoon with opening statements and witness testimony. Four women, who sold makeup for the cosmetics firm MAC at the Atlanta Highway Belk, are seeking unspecified damages. Belk management expressly allowed the MAC employees to change in a stockroom, even setting up a mirror and a rack to hold clothes, their attorney Jimmy Hurt said.
Source - Rome News-Tribune (Props, Flying Hamster)
A new twist!
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070620/164139.shtml
Judge Tells RIAA: Irreparable Harm Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
from the try-again,-folks dept
The recording industry loves to throw around the term "irreparable harm" in its various lawsuits -- as if someone hearing a song they didn't pay for will mortally wound the industry. While some say that this is just standard legalese and we shouldn't read too much into it, it looks like a judge in New Mexico disagrees. In denying the RIAA's request to have the University of Mexico simply hand over info on someone using their network (without letting that individual fight back against the request for info), the judge notes: "While the Court does not dispute that infringement of a copyright results in harm, it requires a Coleridgian 'suspension of disbelief' to accept that the harm is irreparable, especially when monetary damages can cure any alleged violation." However, the judge argues, turning over someone's private info without giving them a chance to defend themselves and protest could cause irreparable harm: "the harm related to disclosure of confidential information in a student or faculty member’s Internet files can be equally harmful." Nice to see the judge recognize that just because someone may have listened to a song without paying for it, it doesn't mean that they lose all other rights.
Build your own robot lawnmower?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/20/2233224&from=rss
NASA Frees Their Robotics Software
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 20, @07:19PM from the now-everyone-will-make-robots dept. Robotics Science
kremvax writes "It's a field day for robotics hackers everywhere, as NASA releases the first installment of their CLARAty reusable robotic software framework to the public. According to the JPL press release, these modules contain everything from math infrastructure to device drivers for common motors and cameras, and computer vision, image, and 3D processing."
You mean Al Gore might be wrong?
Read the sunspots
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON, Financial Post Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
... Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth. The only constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, temperatures were far higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3C warmer than now. Ten thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thou-sand-year-long "Younger Dryas" cold episode, temperatures rose as much as 6C in a decade -- 100 times faster than the past century's 0.6C warming that has so upset environmentalists.
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