Don't forget to wish everyone a Happy Data Privacy Day!
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080127084640881
Reminder: Monday is Data Privacy Day 2008 (update 1)
Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 08:46 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Other Privacy News
As a reminder: January 28th is Data Privacy Day in North America and 27 European countries. Here are some resources or ideas for activities:
IAPP has provided some free materials you can download and use for presentations, as well as some links to other resources
TRUSTe has provided a Parent and Teacher Guide to Privacy [pdf]
Rebecca Herold has posted some good ideas for activities as well as links to podcasts that you can use if you do not have time to create your own
The Council of Europe provides information and a way to see what's happening in other countries
Google Blog also links to some materials and resources
Check this site's calendar for Data Privacy Day events in your area
Consider doing a "5-minute Audit" in your office. Ask the employees to check their desks and immediate workspaces to see if passwords or account numbers are written on slips of paper that could be found by others. In health care facilities, ask the employees to check to see if any identifiable patient information -- including lists of patients scheduled for lab tests or lists of lab results -- are being left in areas where patients could see them.
Conduct a "Trash to Treasure" audit -- have people check the trash (and yes, any dumpster) to determine if sensitive or confidential data are being disposed of improperly.
Finally, remember that keeping our data private also includes keeping it private from our own government if it has no warrant to intrude on our privacy. Contact your Senators on Monday to insist that the FISA update bill not allow the government to engage in wide-scale "vacuuming" up of Americans' emails and telephone communications without a warrant from the FISA Court.
And if you're really feeling like an activist, email your legislators that you want a national disclosure law for data breaches that is at least as good as California's. Regardless of whether you are in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, or any other participating country in Data Privacy Day, we need better data protection laws and disclosure laws.
Again, I point out that TJX must have learned many lessons between the time of ChoicePoint and their own data spill.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080127122415906
(follow-up) ChoicePoint Settles Data Breach Lawsuit
Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 12:24 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Data broker ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought against it over the 2004 theft of 163,000 personal information records by a ring of Nigerian identity thieves.
... ChoicePoint itself went on a makeover P.R. blitz in the wake of the breach, evangelizing its new transparency and openness to privacy advocates. It hired former Transportation Security Administration head Carole DiBattiste as its privacy officer, and legal counsel Katherine Bryan as its "consumer advocate."
The company earlier paid $15 million in civil and consumer penalties to the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to tighten its security procedures and submit to random audits to ensure it was properly protecting personal information.
It coughed up another $500,000 to settle lawsuits brought by the Attorneys General of 44 states for its lax handling of personal data that led to the breach.
Source - Consumer Affairs
Because...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080128072035688
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, January 28 2008 @ 07:20 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.
Source - Chronicles of Dissent
Tools & Techniques. I've mentioned several times that technology existed that made it unnecessary for anyone to carry data in a laptop. Here's one example.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13880_1-9858523-68.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
January 28, 2008 12:01 AM PST
Keep your files at home and access them from the road for free
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We get so used to doing things a certain way, we sometimes miss new techniques that could save us time and trouble. My latest "doh!" moment was when I realized, after spending a couple of hours moving files from my office PC to an ftp server so I could sync them with my new laptop, that there's a better and faster way that doesn't cost a nickel: remote access.
A couple of years ago I edited a review of a half dozen remote-access services that link to a PC from any other Internet-connected machine. At the time the services cost between $10 and $20 a month. Since that time several companies have released free versions of their remote-access services, one of which is from LogMeIn (formerly 3am Labs). In the midst of my home PC-to-ftp server-to laptop two-step, I recalled the company's free file-transfer service, and I'm glad I did.
No one seems to understand what is possible. Someone (hint hint) needs to start writing a guide...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/27/2127223&from=rss
Subpoena Sought For Browsed News Articles
Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 27, @04:56PM from the figuring-out-that-you're-a-dog dept. Censorship The Courts
The Xoxo Reader writes "A new filing in the Autoadmit Internet defamation lawsuit (previously discussed here on two occasions) reveals how the plaintiffs' lawyers have attempted to discover the identities of the defendants, who posted under pseudonyms on a message board without IP logging. The defendants had posted links and excerpts of several Web pages that mention the plaintiffs, including a Washington Post article, a college scholarship announcement, and a federal court opinion. Now the plaintiffs are asking those Web sites for logs of everybody who accessed those articles in the hours before the allegedly defamatory content was posted. (All the more reason to read the web through Google cache!) The plantiff's motion for expedited discovery includes copies of the lawyers' letters to hosting providers, ISPs, and others. It also includes replies from the recipients, many of whom point out that the lawyers' requests are technically impossible to fulfill. No matter; the plaintiffs are asking the court to issue subpoenas anyway. This thread contains a summary of the letters in the filing."
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CivilAnswers.com - Get Answers to Your Legal Questions
Need an answer to a legal question? CivilAnswers is the way to go. It’s sort of a groupthink, crowd-sourced question and answer community, only you’ll actually get professional advice from real, certified attorneys and those in the business of justice. To submit a question, simply write up a short description of the situation, select your field, e.g. copyright, divorce, name change or small claims and enter your email address. If it is a lawyer that answers you, you’ll be sent information about their background and experience. Experts—lawyers and their ilk—can register for free to answer questions, thus promoting their business, and gaining exposure.
Collection of experts?
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WonderHowTo.com - A How-To Video Directory
If you’ve ever wondered how to fold a t-shirt ninja style, or how to survive in the wilds of Patagonia, you’re likely to find it on the web. DIY sites, how-to guides, videos, podcasts, and blogs lay testament to the popularity of the internets as a one-stop life guide. Now there’s one more to add to the list . The aptly named WonderHowTo.com, is a directory and search engine dedicated to the How-to videos on the internet. WonderHowTo’s videos are culled from over 500 sites and cover any topic and category imaginable. It’s a community-fueled site that lets users submit their favorite How-to videos. By signing up, you can create a profile, save and submit videos, create playlists as well as comment and interact with other members. You don’t have to worry about running out of videos to watch either—there’s over 90,000 of them to watch.
Boom Tube on demand?
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TVDuck.com - All Your Favorite TV Shows Here
Hollywood’s writers may be on strike, but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer through clip shows and barely viable attempts to carry on. Now you can catch the best of your favorite TV shows on TVDuck. This intrepid site pulls videos from a host of popular online video sites among which are Google Video, DailyMotion, and Veoh. If you find something missing, you can add it yourself [Shouldn't all web sites have this feature? Bob] by searching for the episode or show you want and clicking the add link next to the episode name. From there, the TVDuck team will approve your link. Current shows available include Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Ugly Betty and Smallville. You can search by category, alphabetically, or use the search bar. There are also reviews of episodes available. Soon to come are Duck Movies.
Another for teaching my web site students about design (or at least first impressions)
http://www.parislemon.com/2008/01/its-come-to-this-hot-or-not-for.html
Sunday, January 27, 2008
It's Come to This: Hot or Not for Websites
Quite frankly I'm shocked it has taken this long for someone to come out with this - Hot or Not for websites. If Digg/Propeller/Reddit/etc is a little too heady for you and you just want to vote a site up or down based upon how it looks, Web Hot or Not is for you.
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