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Data Privacy: Business & Government
Friday, October 25,
2013
Contact Privacy
Foundation Administrator Cindy Goldberg at cgoldberg@law.du.edu
or Anne Beblavi at
abeblavi@law.du.edu,
or call 303-871-6303
Anything for money?
Regular readers will
recall that back in April 2012, this blogger filed
a complaint against Experian with the FTC over their numerous
data breaches. Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg News provided media
coverage of Experian’s breaches and the complaint in November
last year. To date, however, the FTC has not announced any
investigation or charges against Experian.
A report by Brian Krebs
yesterday will hopefully nudge the FTC into quicker action.
Brian reports:
An
identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers license
numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on millions
of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian,
one of the three major credit bureaus, according to a lengthy
investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.
[...]
Martin
said he first learned of the ID theft service after hearing from a
U.S. Secret Service agent who called and said the
law enforcement agency was investigating Experian and had obtained a
grand jury subpoena against the company.
While
the private investigator ruse may have gotten the fraudsters past
Experian and/or CourtVentures’ screening process, according to
Martin there were other signs that should have alerted Experian to
potential fraud associated with the account. For example, Martin
said the Secret Service told him that the alleged proprietor of
Superget.info had paid Experian for his monthly data access charges
using wire transfers sent from Singapore.
“The
issue in my mind was the fact that this went on for almost a year
after Experian did their due diligence and purchased” Court
Ventures, Martin said. “Why didn’t they question cash wires
coming in every month? Experian portrays themselves as the
databreach experts, and they sell identity theft protection services.
How this could go on without them detecting it I don’t know. Our
agreement with them was that our information was to be used for fraud
prevention and ID verification, and was only to be sold to licensed
and credentialed U.S. businesses, not to someone overseas.”
You can read more
details of his investigation on KrebsOnSecurity.
Perspective
Reality
Check – ‘For every day of government shutdown, about one million
emails at CDC go unread.’
“The broader question
is, what are the outbreaks that we don’t know about? At any one
time, we’re investigating 25 or 30 clusters of illness. Initially
we had sent home the vast majority of the staff working on foodborne
disease. When it became clear that [the shutdown] was going to go on
more than a week, we called a bunch of them back. But our monitoring
systems throughout the agency are working at really skeletal levels
and that means we have more blind spots, we may be slower to respond,
and we may be less effective at prevention. For instance, here’s
what we’re responding to right now: An outbreak of Legionella
in a residential facility in Alabama. An outbreak of tuberculosis in
another state. An investigation of a fatal case of Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever on an American Indian Reservation in Arizona where
we’ve been working for two years to control that disease. A
serious healthcare-associated infection outbreak in Baltimore. A
cluster of infants who have been dying, or getting severely ill, in
another part of the country. A cluster of meningitis in a university
in the northeast that is going to require a very complicated
response. An outbreak of hepatitis B in healthcare…”
Oh the horror, the
horror! (This was not a homework project for my Ethical
Hackers/Ninjas, even if it does sound like one of my 'extra credit'
projects.)
Kentucky’s
Case of the Missing Bourbon
… 65 cases of Pappy
Van Winkle, one of the nation’s most expensive and sought-after
bourbons, disappeared from a warehouse here.
Could
be handy
–
is a Shopify app that allows you to create personalized business
documents like invoices, labels, orders and batch print them in
minutes. Print or download hundreds of documents with a couple of
clicks in either PDF or HTML format. Choose from a wide range of
components, like barcodes, QR codes, images, text fields, formatting
tools, and more.
Another
Infographic.
The
Differences Between Digital Natives And Digital Immigrants
… all of our young
digital natives are being taught by “digital immigrants”, or,
folks who didn’t grow up with the internet. Pretty
obvious, but think of it this way: Let’s say you go to school and
have to take English classes (and English is your native language).
Your teacher’s native language is not English (and let’s say
hypothetically their English is not great), and even though he/she
may be very knowledgeable about literature and much of the other
stuff to go along with it, there’s a language barrier getting in
the way.
(Related) Perspective
Online
Dating & Relationships
One in ten Americans
have used an online dating site or mobile dating app; 66% of these
online daters have gone on a date with someone they met through a
dating site or app, and 23% have met a spouse or long term partner
through these sites. Public attitudes toward online dating have
become more positive in recent years, but many users also report
negative experiences.
Perspective
(May also be Related)
PC
shipments to continue their freefall this year, says Gartner
The PC industry is
likely to experience another rough year, according to analysts at
Gartner.
Global shipments of
desktops and notebooks are expected to nestle in at 303 million this
year, an 11.2
percent drop from 2012. Stirring in ultramobile PCs (which
include hybrid laptops/tablets), shipments are forecast to decline by
8.4 percent this year, Gartner said on Monday.
Tablets will continue
to heat up the market, with shipments surging by 42.7 percent in 2013
to reach 184 million. However, smaller and cheaper tablets
are giving their larger and more expensive counterparts a run for
their money.
Oh,
the things I make my students do...
5
Free Apps and Sites for Creating Short Animations
Creating animations can
be a fun element to add to a creative writing project. Creating the
animation could be the final piece of the project in which students
bring their short stories to life. You could also have students
create short animations to use as story starters for their written
works. Here are five free tools that students can use to create
animations.
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