There is huge pressure from industry to get Congress to preempt state data breach notice laws. It's quite a mess now. |
There will be legislation to tighten up privacy. And if not legislation, there will be more regulation. |
Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government, ... Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information. |
Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government. Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information. |
We tend to think of security issues as being computer-based. But many scam artists use the telephone and simple false pretenses to trick people out of data. |
We're arguing that it is creating a national ID system. |
What often is missed with social irritants like spam and telemarketing is that they are a product of privacy violations, ... You can try to marginalize spam, but it is inextricably linked to fraudulent practices. Addressing spam will get at the other issues that they claim to be important. |