Small Bits on Privacy

(Posted by adam)

  • Larry Ponemon has a good article in Computerworld, "After a privacy breach, how should you break the news?:"
    We learned that about one-third of subjects believed that the notification was truthful. Another 41% believed that the notice they received failed to communicate all the facts. The remaining 26% were unsure about the integrity or honesty of the message being conveyed.
    Its chock-full of good advice on the new rules of responding to a breach.
  • Perry Metzger has an essay on why Americans don't like ID cards thats worth reading.
  • Kim Cameron captures an article by Eric Norlin on "The red herring of data protection." Eric comments that the real problem is people asking for, and storing too much data.
  • The Washington Post has a long article on "Online Data Gets Personal: Cell Phone Records for Sale, discussing how, even though there's no legal way to get the data, lots of people will sell your calling records.

Posted by adam on July 10, 2005 at 10:45 AM in Privacy . You can: see trackbacks (0) or search Technorati.

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