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Legislating Social Privacy
July 30, 2010
There’s a great deal of talk these days about privacy and social media. Specifically, services like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social networking platforms are coming under increased scrutiny over their privacy policies and data sharing practices. Permalink

When Privileged Access is no longer a Privilege
July 19, 2010
I just read an interesting multi-part investigative report in the Washington Post about how intelligence gathering – and the bureaucracy that has risen since September 11, 2001 to facilitate the harvest and analysis of that information – has spun beyond the federal government’s control, not to mention its ability to make use of the sheer abundance of information. Permalink

Information Governance in the Cloud
July 15, 2010
Just a brief note to bring our recent webinar to your attention.  I presented Information Governance in the Cloud along with the good people at Symantec. Permalink

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eGov Initiative Not Without Risk to Citizen Data

November 19, 2009

The eGovernment movement is a good thing, and maybe too long in coming given how many years businesses have been taking advantage of technology to provide convenience and a higher quality of service to their customers. Constituent services have been available online for years, certainly, but only recently has the effort to modernize government been policy. Yet the push to digitalize federal agencies is not all photo ops and campaign sound bites. There’s risk involved, and unless ...more

Posted by Dr. Larry Ponemon at 7:36 am
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Advanced Cyberthreats: Are You Ready?

July 6, 2010

  Last September I had the privilege of addressing an audience of IT professionals from the chemical industry during the ChemITC Annual Conference. My presentation focused on applying lessons learned by consumer-facing industries from five years of experience dealing with data breach notification regulations and what those lessons can teach an industry that, like many others, is beset by data security issues. A number of high profile cases of corporate espionage in the chemical industry, including ...more

Posted by Mike Spinney at 5:12 pm
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