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Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dissent

Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records SLDS Technical Brief Guidance for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) SLDS Technical BriefGuidance for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) November 2010, Brief 2 NCES 2011-602 The growth of electronic student data in America’s education system has focused attention on the ways these data are…

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ITRC 2010 Breach Report

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dissent

The Identity Theft Resource Center has issued its end of year press release. It  includes some of the organization’s key findings and stresses the need for more information and mandated disclosures.  Breach reports by sector can be found on their site as well as their chronology of the breaches they recorded for 2010: The Identity…

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Policy puts troops at risk for identity theft

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dissent

Andrew Tilghman reports: U.S. troops may be among the most vulnerable Americans to identity theft. That’s because the U.S. military is overusing Social Security numbers and putting at risk troops’ most basic personal information, according to a recent report from several professors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. It’s been a problem…

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As 2010 draws to a close, data breach version

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dissent

A breach involving paper records just became my last breach post for 2010. It seems somehow appropriate, as breaches involving paper records constitute over 20% of breaches I find out about but they’re often not taken as seriously, it seems, as breaches involving large electronic databases. Yet these types of breaches, which often go unreported,…

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A tale of two breach responses

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Dissent

Over on The Examiner, Joe Campana compares the way in which two recent breaches involving Wisconsin residents were handled by the respective entities – the Dean and St. Mary’s Hospital breach and a University of Wisconsin breach. For the most part, I agree with Joe’s points, and I think it’s important to emphasize that much…

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Army opens probe of its role in WikiLeaks security breach

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Dissent

Nancy A. Youssef reports: The U.S. Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private allegedly downloaded hundreds of thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handed them to WikiLeaks, McClatchy has learned. The probe could result in a recommendation that other soldiers should face criminal charges in the case. […] The report…

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