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Privacy Professionals Should Share the Wealth
August 16, 2010
I guest-blogged for anti-ID theft crusader John Sileo’s web site this week and thought I’d re-post here for readers of the Ponemon. Permalink

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

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Consumer Influences on Most Trusted for Privacy

March 4, 2010

FoxBusiness.com called the other day asking if we might be interested in talking about our annual Most Trusted Companies for Privacy study. Always eager to promote our research (the Institute, after all, produces the most interesting privacy and information security research in the land), I said yes. It’s a busy time for us – Larry was knee-deep in RSA, and I was scheduled to give a talk on privacy in online social networking – but we made ...more

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Ozob’s Tale: Clowning Around with Kids and Facebook

March 18, 2010

In February I was invited to be part of a panel presentation at Darien High School in Darien, Connecticut. The school decided to take action and confront some issues related to prudent use of Facebook following a betrayal of trust among a small group of students that spilled over from a private, off campus affair into a public situation on school grounds. Luckily it was a relatively minor issue and the school wisely decided to use the ...more

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Sit Down and Talk with your Kids

April 2, 2010

I've had a positive and heartening response to my recent post about my experience creating a bogus Facebook account to illustrate the ease with which someone can gain access to kids' accounts. Parents have contacted me to let me know that the story helped them better understand the threats to themselves and their children. One even said he sat down with his son and together they went though and un-friended individuals with whom he ...more

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Facebook's Pioneering Privacy Path

May 26, 2010

Wow. Facebook seems to have rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way -- again. Time Magazine put the company on the cover this week following yet another privacy misstep and an admission by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that, perhaps, the company had made a few mistakes in calculating the public’s acceptance of its data use practices. Even as Facebook implements simpler privacy controls in response to criticism, a growing number of users are upset at the ...more

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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. As I write this issue has the attention of a number of politicians in Washington, DC as Congress mulls new legislation addressing privacy concerns. The Ponemon Institute believes a big part of addressing issues of consumer privacy as they ...more

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