From Mary Brown | October 23rd, 2009
Noah Shachtman at Wired.com reports on a business relationship between a segment of the CIA and an Internet company that uses specialized data mining tools to monitor the activity going on in the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Personal privacy laws in the U.S. require the government to use discretion when violating the privacy of U.S. citizens. These social networking sites provide a huge amount of personal information that would not be available, were it not being offered up to the public.
Is this another example of where there is a tension between the potential benefit to security and the potential abuse of privacy? Do users of social networking sites fully understand what will happen to the data they post, and would they alter their behavior if they were made aware? Share your thoughts. Post a comment.
Tags: data mining, information, Internet, personal privacy laws, privacy, security, social networking
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From Jimmy Arendt | September 1st, 2009
On July 17, 2009, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Andrea McNulty against Ben Roethlesberger, a football quarterback, John Koster, the Harrah’s Casino Northern Nevada President, Guy Hyder, the Security Chief at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, et al. (RGJ.com, 2009) This post will not address the main issues or complaints of the lawsuit. It will discuss the complaint of Invasion of Privacy, Trespass and Civil Conspiracy. READ ON
Tags: Conspiracy, evidence, Football star, Forensic, Harrah's, privacy, Trespass
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From Mary Brown | June 29th, 2009
I have recently been attending a range of webinar meetings being held by federal and private healthcare stakeholders that are trying to get their arms around the Health IT mandates that are included in the Obama stimulus and health reform plans. The big cahuna in healthcare is the HIPAA security and privacy regulations that were meant to protect the private health information of individuals. READ ON
Tags: data exchange, healthcare, HIPPA, privacy, security, webinar
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