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News release: “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Rule, which gives parents control over what personal information websites may collect from children under 13. The FTC proposes these amendments to ensure that the Rule continues to protect childrens privacy, as mandated by Congress, as …
“The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.” See in Input Documents as …
News release: “Ever have a medical test done and then had to wait around sometimes anxiously, depending on the test to get the lab test results from your doctor? Thats about to change. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed regulations that would give patients the ability to access their …
The Library of Congress – THOMAS: “This site was begun in September 2001 as a way of keeping the public readily apprised of legislation related to the terrorist attack on the United States that month. The selection, made by hand, is necessarily subjective, as the September 11th attack had a ripple effect on legislation in …
“The Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that the Department of Justice must release information regarding government surveillance of cell phone location data. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information regarding current and past cases where the Department of Justice had accessed cell phone …
The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information (July 8, 2011). New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, 2011. Paul M. Schwartz and Daniel J. Solove. Personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in information privacy regulation. The scope of privacy laws typically turns on whether PII …
“A Federal judge has ruled that law enforcement officers must have a warrant to access cell phone locational data. Courts are divided regarding whether or not this type of data should be protected by a warrant requirement. Judge Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York, found that “The fiction that the vast majority of …
“August 25, 2011 – Facebook is rolling out a series of changes to its privacy controls. We reviewed the changes in detail on Tuesday; now heres how you can take advantage of these changes. “Turn On Profile Review – One of the biggest changes to Facebooks privacy controls is the option to review any content …
“Symantec Corp. announced the results of the August 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report, now combining the best research and analysis from the Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam & Phishing Report. This months analysis reveals that once more spammers are seeking to benefit from fluctuations in the turbulent financial markets, most notably …
Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection. Moheeb Abu Rajab, Lucas Ballard, Nav Jagpal, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Daisuke Nojiri, Niels Provos, Ludwig Schmidt. Google Technical Report rajab-2011a, July 2011 “Malicious web sites that compromise vulnerable computers are an ever-present threat on the web. The purveyors of these sites are highly motivated and quickly adapt to technologies that try …
A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators, Linda McCarthy, Keith Watson, and Denise Weldon-Siviy, August 2011. “This online guide explains how you can: Protect your Facebook account Avoid the scammers Use advanced security settings Recover a hacked Facebook account Stop imposters
Revealed: Operation Shady RAT by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President, Threat Research, McAfee: “An investigation of targeted intrusions into more than 70 global companies, governments, and non-profit organizations during the last five years.” “…the targeted compromises we are focused on known as advanced persistent threats (APTs) are much more insidious and occur largely without …
