Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
News about the Epsilon breach has spread relatively slowly. The breach of data held by an email service provider is bad—no question—but it’s not terribly consequential. Emails aren’t generally kept private. But the Epsilon story may soon heat up. The presence of an email address on a list creates inferences about aspects of a person’s [...]
Well, then, this post (via Adam Shostack) is for you! “Dissent” goes through the numbers revealed in the first year of data breach reporting under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations. The post gives extremely light treatment to the possibility—indeed, the likelihood—of noncompliance with the regulations due to unawareness of breaches or judgments [...]
Recall a couple of years ago when I lauded Google – and also picked on them – for making customer data “more anonymous”? “‘Anonymous’ is correctly regarded as an absolute condition,” I wrote. “Like pregnancy, anonymity is either there or it’s not. Modifying the word with a relative adjective like ‘more’ is a curious use [...]
Earlier this month, Google made news when it announced that its cloud computing productivity suite Google Docs had suffered a technical glitch that temporarily compromised a subset of users’ shared documents. After becoming aware of this glitch, Google notified its users via email and posted an entry to the Official Google Docs Blog that offered [...]
In response to Adam and Berin’s excellent introduction to their Googlephobia series, invaluable TLF commenter Richard Bennett succinctly sums up the rap on Google. There’s no denying that Google has the capacity to do some pretty heinous things with all the sensitive data stored on its servers. But the relevant question isn’t whether Google could [...]
February 13, 2012
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