Its not clear (to me) from the article what compensation was paid, but wouldn't that number help establish a method to calculate damages?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071109064957789
(update) Court tosses stolen data lawsuit
Friday, November 09 2007 @ 06:53 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: In the Courts
A Multnomah County judge has tossed out a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for tens of thousands of people whose confidential records were stolen from Providence Health & Services in Oregon.
Judge Marilyn Litzenberger struck the claims for damages, concluding that the nonprofit hospital corporation had already reasonably compensated the affected patients and employees and corrected the security problems. The parties received the opinion Thursday.
Source - The Oregonian\
Ditto?
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/6764.html
IU professor's book examines identity theft, Internet privacy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOV. 8, 2007
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- L. Jean Camp, associate professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics, has published a new book on the ever-growing challenge of identity theft and how to protect personal privacy in the Internet age.
Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures is an examination of identity management and how individuals and organizations can do a better of job of protecting financial and personal data. The scholarly narrative is woven into helpful tips for daily life, identity theft horror stories and tales of recovery, and easy-to-read descriptions of modern security technologies.
... A central theme of Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures is that identity is -- more than anything else -- economic, and that the technology used to create, utilize and protect identities is increasingly ill-matched to the economics and uses of identities. Camp argues that in order for us to prove our online identities we must expose personal information, thus illustrating that the near-term search for inexpensive identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft.
Do their managers know?
Federal IT pros insecure over security
A poll by Cisco finds that government IT managers are spending more time on security compliance but don't feel that their infrastructure is secure
By Matt Hines November 08, 2007
If a new poll sponsored by Cisco is to be considered an accurate indicator of the opinions held by a majority of federal IT leaders, it appears that the security of the United States government's network infrastructure remains a serious problem.
According to the report released Thursday -- and detailed by Cisco CTO John Stewart at an ongoing government security summit in Washington -- federal IT decision makers are even more concerned about issues related to security than they were when the company carried out the same survey one year ago.
... project leaders continue to feel as if they do not have enough time or funds to adequately address what they view as their most pressing network security issues.
For instance, while 65 percent of those people interviewed said that the spent more time dealing with security issues in 2007 than during previous years, only 50 percent of respondents said they feel more confident about their agency's security than they did three years ago.
... Behind budget, respondents ranked the high amount of user training needed to install new network security technologies (55 percent), existing security architecture (55 percent) and the need to give prioritization to other projects over network security improvements (53 percent) as leading barriers to improving their standing.
Never tell a hacker that you can spot music sharing anywhere, anytime... (If 12 year old kids can encrypt their songs, whay can't 12 billion dollar companies encrypt the data on their laptops?)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/bittorrent_encryption_explosion/
Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz
BPI claims losing is winning in P2P arms race
By Chris Williams Published Thursday 8th November 2007 11:53 GMT
Exclusive The legal crackdown and publicity blitz aimed at people who share music, videos and software online may be having an unintended consequence for the troubled record industry. The number of file-sharers disguising their BitTorrent activity with encryption is skyrocketing.
Figures from a large UK ISP obtained by The Register show that the portion of BitTorrent traffic encrypted by file-sharers has risen 10-fold in the last 12 months, from four to 40 per cent.
Interesting idea for special interest groups. I wonder if they have one on Privacy?
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1194516235774
Watchgroup Catalogs Legal Threats to Online Speech
Vesna Jaksic The National Law Journal November 8, 2007
The Citizen Media Law Project has unveiled the Legal Threats Database, a collection of a growing number of lawsuits, cease-and-desist letters and other legal challenges faced by those engaging in online speech.
The database can be accessed at www.citmedialaw.org/database. It is updated daily and already contains hundreds of entries from 35 states and nine countries. The threats range from copyright infringement lawsuits filed against bloggers to cease-and-desist letters claiming defamation sent to users of the MySpace social networking Web site.
The Legal Threats Database allows users to input threat entries, comment on existing threats and search the database in a number of ways. It aims to provide lawyers, citizen journalists and mainstream media with resources for assessing the validity and potential outcomes of legal threats to online speech based on actual cases and legal actions.
The database is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It represents the start of several endeavors the Citizen Media Law Project will undertake in upcoming months. Starting next year, the project will roll out state-based legal guides for citizen and non-traditional journalists, which will focus on issues such as defamation, newsgathering, access to government information and intellectual property.
The Citizen Media Law Project is jointly affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Center for Citizen Media.
Soon, you will be required to wear a video camera next to your “I'm a citizen (Second class)” sign...
http://www.ventureitch.com/?p=496
CCTV systems have become ubiquitous
Posted on November 6, 2007
It seems that some of the gloomy phantasies of Orwell’s “1984″ and “V for Vendetta” are becoming reality. According to some unconfirmed market research reports there may be now as many as 6 million CCTV cameras in UK: one for every ten people, and a person can be captured on over 400 cameras each day. CCTV cameras have become commodities sold in supermarkets. Big Brother is indeed watching.
What will you do with those videos?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_releases_multifile_upl.php
YouTube Releases Multi-file Uploader, Raises File Limits to 1 GB
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 8, 2007 / 6 comments
YouTube just announced the availability for Windows users of a desktop uploader (install page here). Users will now be able to do bulk file uploads. The company also raised its file size limit from 100 MB to 1 GB. Length will remain at 10 minutes though, so that just means more high quality video will be available on the site.
Innovation v. obscure law?
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9814034-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Law professor argues that Facebook's "Social Ads" may be illegal
Posted by Caroline McCarthy November 9, 2007 5:03 AM PST
Facebook executives have recently been quoted as saying that they want to take over the world, but something might already be getting in their way: the law.
The New York Times' Saul Hansell has linked to a blog post from William McGeveran, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, in which McGeveran asserts that an obscure, 100-year-old New York privacy law may put a damper on Facebook's new "Social Ads" program, which inserts "endorsements" from your friends on the social networking site.
Plenty of pundits have already argued that this could be really annoying, but McGeveran says that it could violate a New York privacy law that was instituted to protect people from having their names and likenesses used for advertisements without permission. Specific written consent, he underscored, is necessary. True, it's a state law, but the fact that Social Ads are online, and hence displayed on computers in New York, could get in the way.
"I don't see how broad general consent to share one's information translates into the specific written consent necessary for advertisers to use one's name (and often picture) under this law," McGeveran wrote.
According to Hansell's article in the Times, Facebook's chief privacy officer has already come out and said that he thinks McGeveran's interpretation of the law is too broad to apply to Facebook's Social Ads.
A blog for tracking the Supremes. (Nothing special about the case...)
New Filing in Driver’s Privacy Protection Act Case
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 10:22 am | Kevin Russell
On Monday, the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic filed this brief in opposition in Fred O. Dickinson, et al. v. Mary Ann Collier, et al., No. 07-197. The petition raises three questions relating to whether a state official may be sued in his or her individual capacity for violating drivers’ right to privacy under the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, when the official was purportedly disclosing the information in an attempt to comply with an invalid state law. Stanford students Alan Bakowski, Sarah Craven and Scott Stewart worked on the brief.
See what others are extracting via FOIA?
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/governmentdocs--Search-For-Government-Publications/
GovernmentDocs.org - Search For Government Publications
Government Docs is a searchable database of just that: government documents. Operating under the Freedom of Information Act, Government Docs makes available otherwise disclosed documents to the public and promotes an open and accountable government.
http://www.governmentdocs.org/
For your Security manager...
Security & Privacy
Jason Hong and Mahadev Satyanarayanan • Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
George Cybenko • Dartmouth College
... The seven articles that we selected for this special issue draw on ideas from many of these fields and provide a flavor of the kinds of security and privacy challenges and opportunities in pervasive computing.
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