What if the FBI put the family of everyone who has ever been convicted or arrested into a giant DNA database? Jeffrey Rosen had an article in Slate earlier this week that is thought-provoking piece on the constitutional and political implications of searching the DNA of family members who are presumed innocent and who are…
Author: Dissent
ID theft feared as files found in street in East New York, Brooklyn
I know that most of the world is more concerned with electronic data breaches than paper breaches, but I’ve always been as concerned, and in some cases, more concerned, about paper breaches. Here’s another example from New York, reported by Veronika Belenkaya of the NY Daily News: Dozens of confidential files with city public housing…
TN: Sensitive School Info Found Along Road
Josh DeVine of WSMV reports that confidential records including 21 students’ names, Social Security numbers and disabilities were found in the street. The students had all attended Bailey Middle School in 2006.
Overseas card fraud scam exposed
Alan Little of BBC News reports: A criminal gang selling UK credit card details stolen from Indian call centres has been exposed by an undercover BBC News investigation. Reporters posing as fraudsters bought UK names, addresses and valid credit card details from a Delhi-based man. The seller denied any wrongdoing and Symantec corporation, from whom…
Visa Security Summit opens with no sympathy for Heartland
The Visa Security Summit 2009 is going on today. You can watch a live webcast at http://www.visasecuritysummit.com (free registration required). Ellen Richey, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for Visa, Inc. wasted little time in her opening remarks before getting to the recent Heartland Payment Systems breach and Visa’s confidence in PCI DSS as an important tool…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Diane Michelle Nicholson, a former employee of the Holladay Park Plaza retirement care facility, is accused of stealing credit cards and checks from multiple elderly tenants and patients. Read more. Dr. Lisa Michelle Barden, the physician accused of stealing patients’ identities and faking other doctors’ signatures to obtain thousands of prescription…