Category «Privacy»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 29, 2019

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 29, 2019 – Four highlights from this week: What You’re Unwrapping When You Get a DNA Test for Christmas; Ring and Amazon sued in federal court over security concerns; Smart Home Tech, Police, and Your Privacy: Year in Review 2019; and Fake …

Subjects: Courts, E-Commerce, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Amazon files patent for tech to identify you using the veins in your hand

USA Today: “What if you could pay for your groceries using your veins?  Amazon filed a patent for technology that could identify you by scanning the wrinkles in the palm of your hand and by using a light to see beneath your skin to your blood vessels. The resulting images could be used to identify you …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark, Privacy

Converging Paths: A Librarian’s Journey to Becoming a Privacy Professional

Via LLRX – Converging Paths: A Librarian’s Journey to Becoming a Privacy Professional – After receiving her MLIS Stephanie Davis worked in the field of knowledge management (KM) where she sourced, documented, categorized, and shared information about her consulting firm’s people and project experiences. Davis designed webpages, delivered training programs on information access and disclosure, …

Subjects: E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy

2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame

Cnet – These were the biggest data breaches of the year – We never want to hear the words “unsecured database” ever again: “The words “unsecured database” seemed to run on repeat through security journalism in 2019. Every month, another company was asking its customers to change their passwords and report any damage. Cloud-based storage …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Privacy

Washington’s New Anti-Robocall Law Won’t Stop the Calls

WSJ.com [article is paywalled but the 5 minute accompanying video is not, and well worth listening for the specificity of the explanation] “In a rare bipartisan achievement, Congress has moved to combat the scourge of robocalls inundating Americans. Just don’t stop the calls to stop coming any time soon..”

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Smart Home Tech, Police, and Your Privacy: Year in Review 2019

EFF: “If 2019 confirmed anything, it is that we should not trust the microphones and cameras that large corporations sell us to put inside and near our homes. Thanks to the due diligence of reporters, public records requesters, and privacy researchers and activists, consumers have been learning more and more about how these “smart” home …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

Washington Post – “When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.” And when they skip class? The SpotterEDU app sees that, too, logging their absence into …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Privacy

The privacy worries with smart cities

Axios – Momentum for smart cities projects, which has been fed by big promises from industry and big hopes in government, is slowing down in the face of a wave of public skepticism. Driving the news: Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, which has proposed a futuristic smart-city development for Toronto’s waterfront, has pledged not to sell personal …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media