In commemoration of the American Library Association’s inaugural Choose Privacy Week celebration, I will be joining a panel discussion hosted bt the UWM School of Information Studies and UWM Libraries on: Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era Tuesday, May 4, 2010 3:00pm – 4:30pm Golda Meir Library, West Wing,...
Are your employees blogging? Tweeting? Using FaceBook, LinkedIn, or BlogHer? Do you have any idea? If you don’t know, and your company or organization is large enough that you can’t call out “Hey? Are you using any of these things?” and get a verbal answer from everyone, then the answer is probably yes. And...
I believe that a lot of bad privacy decisions are made by well-intentioned people who don’t understand either how various technologies work, or who don’t understand the easiest, cheapest, and most effective way to protect people’s privacy is to limit the amount of data they collect and retain. The City of Bozeman, Montana, appears...
The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog posts an abject horror story: Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site’s homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of...