http://blog.wired.com…
October 07, 2008
The government should not be building predictive data-mining programs systems that attempt to figure out who among millions is a terrorist, a privacy and terrorism commission funded by Homeland Security reported Tuesday. The commission found that the technology would not work and the inevitable mistakes would be un-American.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk…
Urmee Khan
Telegraph
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:45 UTC
A computer containing MI5 anti-terror files has been stolen from a house after a window was left open.
The burglar stole the computer after climbing in through an open window of a house rented by the security services.
Officers believe it was an opportunist theft and that the house in Greater [...]
thenewspaper.com
h/t: informationliberation.com
Vendors plan to add spy technology to existing red light camera and speed camera installations.
Private companies in the US are hoping to use red light cameras and speed cameras as the basis for a nationwide surveillance network similar to one that will be active next year in the UK. Redflex and American Traffic Solutions [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/…
By JOHN F. BURNS
LONDON — In the latest of a string of government security breaches involving citizens’ personal information, a private consulting company working for Britain’s Home Office has lost a memory stick containing details on all of the 84,000 prisoners serving time in England and Wales.
hat tip ~ sott.net
http://www.computerworld.com/…
Leo King
Computer World
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:02 EDT
The U.K. Ministry of Justice has lost the personal data of about 45,000 people in a string of IT and physical security breaches during the national government’s past fiscal year, according to an annual report issued by the agency.
http://www.sott.net/…
Liz Austin Peterson
Houston Chronicle
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:20 EDT
Employee put info of 1,200 people onto a device and now cannot find it
Many of the medical and financial records stored on a flash drive that has gone missing from the Harris County Hospital District belonged to patients with HIV or AIDS, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett [...]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/…
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Monday 4th August 2008 19:55 GMT
A financial analyst for Countrywide Home Financial, one of the world’s biggest and most troubled mortgage lenders, has been arrested and charged with stealing personal information concerning a breathtaking number of the company’s customers.
http://yro.slashdot.org/…
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 06, @08:06AM
jafo alerts us to an SFGate story reporting that the lost “Clear” Program laptop has turned up in the same office from which it was reported missing, but not in its previous location. “A preliminary investigation shows that the information was not compromised… The computer held [...]
hat tip ~ Reality Redux
http://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
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EPIC Urges Scrutiny of Proposed Federal Profiling Agency. In a letter (pdf) to a House [...]
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By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 3, 2008; A05
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is calling on “eggheads” to help the military unravel questions about the recruitment of terrorists, the resurgence of the Taliban and messages delivered in militant Muslim religious schools.
Many eggheads are wary.
The Pentagon’s $50 million Minerva Research Initiative, named after the Roman [...]
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