[repost] Nicola Mawson reports: Around 39 000 South Africans who signed up on the Direct Marketing Association of SA’s (DMASA’s) “do not contact” database are at risk of identity theft, because the list has been leaked to companies that aren’t DMA members. The database contains sensitive information such as contact details, addresses and identity numbers….
Author: Dissent
In: Two laptops containing UID data stolen from Hadapsar school [repost]
[repost] Unidentified persons broke into a school hall in Hadapsar and decamped with two laptops, two web cameras and a pen drive in the early hours of Saturday. Investigations have revealed that the laptops contained the data of around 150 persons collected as part of the Central government’s Aadhaar (UID) project. A complaint has been…
Dys-maintenance note
We had to do a database restore. In the process, posts between May 28 and this afternoon were lost and RSS links or links from Twitter may no longer work. I’ll try to restore/recreate some of the missing posts, but some may be permanently lost.
House Energy and Commerce Committee will focus on data security and digital privacy
Gautham Nagesh reports: The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced a comprehensive review of data security and eletronic privacy issues on Wednesday, beginning with Thursday’s hearing on data breaches at Sony and Epsilon. The announcement signals the committee is likely staking out its place for the upcoming debates on comprehensive cybersecurity and privacy legislation, both…
Google reveals breaches; reminds users how to stay safe online
Eric Grosse posted the following to Google’s blog today: […] Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users…
Register NOW for the First International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy
From their announcement: *JOIN THE CONVERSATION TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY* *International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy* *June 13, 2011 at the Georgetown Law Center* “”Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy in a Wired World”” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org ] is the first open, public forum to examine and debate the future of health privacy…