A court ruled that the “cell site location information is within the subscriber’s reasonable expectation of privacy. The obtaining of that data without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation.” On June 11, 2014 the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals ruled in the US v. Davis since the evidence was found…
Continue Reading Conviction Upheld, Nonetheless a Warrant is Required for Cell Site Location Data
The May 2014 EU court’s opinion refers to a 1890 Harvard Law Review article entitled “The Right to Privacy,” co-authored by Louis D. Brandeis (later Justice on the US Supreme Court), which contended that individuals have the right to be protected: “Recent inventions and business methods such as instantaneous…
Continue Reading EU Court ‘right to be forgotten’ Ruling Relied on Brandeis’ Privacy Article
Given the size of the Big Data and IoT (Internet of Things) it is clear that we really have no privacy, just consider Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion that “GPS monitoring generates a precise, comprehensive record of a person’s public movements that reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political…
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The investigation of stolen laptop from Concentra revealed “a lack of encryption on its laptops, desktop computers, medical equipment, tablets and other devices containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) was a critical risk” as reported by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the US Department of Health and…
Continue Reading HIPAA Fine of $1.7 Million for Unencrypted Devices
Wyndham hotels failed to persuade a Judge to dismiss the 2012 suit filed by the FTC “for alleged data security failures that led to three data breaches at Wyndham hotels in less than two years…that led to fraudulent charges on consumers’ accounts, millions of dollars in fraud loss, and the…
The Federal Trade Commission recommended that Congress regulate data brokers because they “collect consumers’ personal information and resell or share that information with others—are important participants in this Big Data economy.” The FTC report issued on May 27, 2014 is entitled “Data Brokers – A call for Transparency and Accountability”…
Continue Reading Big Data Controlled by Data Brokers: Privacy Challenge by the FTC
Pew Research reported that of the 1,606 experts consulted “83%—agreed that the Internet/Cloud of Things and embedded and wearable computing will have widespread and beneficial effects by 2025.” However the Pew Report did not focus on the security issues which we see in 2014 which are included in my May…
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Following the EU ruling Eric Schmidt (Google Chair) said that there was a “a collision between a right to be forgotten and a right to know” and the in the ruling “…the balance that was struck was wrong” according to Mashable. The Mashable report went on to say:
Google is…
Continue Reading Google Says the EU got ‘right to be forgotten’ Wrong!
The US filed charges against 5 “officers in Unit 61398 of the Third Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA)” and declared that “Cyber theft is real theft and we will hold state sponsored cyber thieves accountable as we would any other transnational criminal organization that steals our goods…
Continue Reading 5 Chinese Military Hackers Indicted for Cybercrimes
The highest court in the EU ruled that Google must delete information to comply with “European privacy law to heed private citizens’ requests to remove links, when requested, absent a compelling public interest in leaving them up” as reported in the New York Times. However the panel of 13 judges…
Continue Reading EU Court Rules that “the right to be forgotten” Trumps Free Speech
