ORCID describes itself as an “open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.” The following notice was…
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IN: Security breach reported by Kankakee Valley REMC
The Chicago Tribune reports that Kankakee Valley REMC is investigating the possibility that a breach may have compromised almost 18,000 members’ personal information. According to a press release issued by the electric utility cooperative, the breach was detected by an audit in mid-January that indicated that a foreign IP address had accessed a storage device on the network. According…
Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret
So it seems the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) hack and data dump did disclose some documents that while not shocking to me, are somewhat annoying to the public. George Joseph reports: Contracts between police and city authorities, leaked after hackers breached the website of the country’s biggest law enforcement union, contain guarantees that disciplinary records…
Colombia lawyers have sensitive human rights information stolen
There has reportedly been a burglary at a lawyer’s office where the target may have been sensitive information on human rights cases. ABColombia reports: The lawyers office of the Centre for the Studies for Social Justice –Tierra Digna’s was broken into during the night of the 19 January 2016 and a laptop containing sensitive information…
Founder of fake prison charity convicted of stealing prisoners’ identity info for tax refund fraud scheme
There’s an update to a case first noted on this site in January, 2014. Carla Caldwell reports: An Atlanta man who founded what he said was a charity to provide indigent prisoners with religious and financial assistance instead used his program to steal prisoners’ identities to apply for millions of dollars in fraudulent federal income…
Voter Data Modeling: Does it Threaten Our Privacy?
Evan Halper writes about an issue I’ve raised in my own commentary on the risks of the explosion of voter profiling. …. But as presidential campaigns push into a new frontier of voter targeting, scouring social media accounts, online browsing habits and retail purchasing records of millions of Americans, they have brought a privacy imposition…