TJX Fires Employee for Publicizing Their Weak Security
TJX, the company that is known for having the largest data breach in history (so far), has not implemented better security and might have gotten worse. The employee that blew the whistle on them has been caught and fired for it.
TJX now has a firm that scours the internet to find bad things .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
China Puts RFID Chips In Olympic Tickets
This should be interesting. If China didn't take some serious precautions when implementing RFID for their tickets, we should be hearing any day now about people who remotely cloned someone else's ticket and got into the game denying access to the others.
Or, since passport information is stored on the ticket as well, someone with a scanner can .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: China, RFIDExtra, Extra! Congress AND Bush Did Something Right
It's amazing and I promise it's no joke, but both congress AND Bush did something right by drafting, passing, and then signing into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Some provisions of the law include:
- Prohibiting group health insurance plans and issuers offering coverage on the group or individual market from basing eligibility determinations .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Cyberbullying at CFP
Today there was a talk about Cyberbullying that revealed some really fascinating information. Elizabeth Englander from MARC (the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center) game a very spirited talk with some good statistics from her group's studies.
- Grappling is the name for either staging a fight or ambushing someone and recording it to upload to Youtube later. There has .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Today’s CFP Highlight
Today before the first panel at the conference, I heard a presenter who had to be in his 70's or close to it say, "I feel so naked without my laptop".
And that has been today's CFP conference highlight 🙂
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: CFPCredit Freeze Presentation at CFP 2008
I was given the opportunity to give a five minute talk on any topic of my choice relating to computers, freedom, or privacy preceding the conference dinner on Wednesday. Narrowing down all the things I would want to say was difficult at first, but of course had to be nothing other than credit freezes.
It drives me nuts that .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: CFP, Credit Freezes, Identity TheftAn Open Challenge to Todd Davis of Lifelock
I have been challenging the value of Lifelock for a while based on the fact that they claim to prevent ID theft, but can't. It looks like several other people have come to that conclusion and are busy suing him for as much of his millions that they can get.
The problem is that even with CNN, Wired, and .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Identity Theft, Lifelock, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, Todd DavisTSA at the CFP Conference
I ended up sitting next to Peter Pietra, the head of the privacy department at the TSA. This gave me an interesting opportunity to talk about issues of privacy when dealing with their agency and the first thing I asked was about the pornographic backscatter x-ray devices.
He was clearly frustrated (and I don't blame him) as I'm sure .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Backscatter Xray, Congress, TSAGeorgia Gets Credit Freeze Law August 1st
Last year, credit reporting companies "voluntarily" implemented credit freezes in all states in a desperate attempt to prevent more states from passing laws with worse terms than they wanted (that's my theory anyway). Now Georgia has passed just such a law. Starting August 1st, people will be able to freeze their credit for only $3, a full $7 less than the $10 the credit reporting companies allowed in their "voluntary" .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Identity TheftPresidential Campaign Reps at CFP 2008
Today at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, we opened with statements from representatives from the Obama and McCain campaigns (Clinton declined to attend).
Obama
Daniel Weitzner from MIT represented Obama's campaign. He opened by talking about Obama's major views as they relate to privacy and technology. Obama believes in:- Greater accountability in government
- Keeping government information and .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]