Monday, April 11, 2005

Aeroplan rapped over data security

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Aeroplan is once again in the privacy hot-seat, according to this article from the Globe and Mail. This time, it is for inadequate security ...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

Texas Considering Security Breach Notification Law

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PrivacySpot is reporting that the state of Texas is considering a privacy breach notification law, similar to the law already in place in Ca...

Identity complex: Data brokers' files are extensive, as are their destinations

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Today's Palm Beach Post is running a feature article on the data broker industry. There's not too much to learn here for those who f...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

Incident: Bank employee uses access to personal information in attempt to drain funds from an account

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The Bourse de Montreal has disciplined a representative of National Bank Financial Inc. for using access to personal information to imperson...

Incident: Break and enter at Windsor Ontario medical lab exposes patient information

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A medical lab in Windsor, Ontario was broken into on January 1, 2005 and the thieves made off with a computer containing personal health inf...

States initiatives on the privacy law front

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Today's Washington Post, via Yahoo! News, is running a story on the various state legislative initiatives related to protecting personal...

ChoicePoint scandal driving tougher global privacy standards

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From today's Palm Beach Post: ChoicePoint scandal driving tougher global privacy standards : "WASHINGTON - U.S. corporations a...
Friday, April 08, 2005

Incident: Mississippi joins list of colleges leaking data as names and SSNs are posted online

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For quite some time, a list of names, frats and social security numbers has been publicly available on a University of Mississippi web serve...

Safire: Goodbye to Privacy

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This Sunday's New York Times Review of Books contains (or will contain) a review by William Safire of " No Place to Hide " and...

Hughes Luce on Online Marketing Privacy Issues

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Anthony Cerminaro's Deal Attorney blog is pointing to a very good and useful compendium on online privacy issues prepared by Hughes Luc...