by Itzel Martinez | Jun 29, 2015 | Blog, Sharing Releases Control, You Can't Escape
In a recent privacy incident at Meritus Hospital, patients’ personal and clinical information was accessed by an employee of a third-party vendor for unknown purposes. This story illustrates that, whatever the reasoning behind a decision to share information, it...
by Itzel Martinez | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control
Have we finally realized that our data is more valuable than a free service? Symantec recently did a report on consumer behavior that showed, for the first time, that customers cared more about personal privacy than the quality of a service. The article linked below...
by Julia Bernd | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog, Project News
A beta version of the TROPE curriculum under development by the Teaching Privacy team will be put through its paces at this summer’s CyBEAR summer camp, hosted by the TRUST center at University of California–Berkeley. CyBEAR is a four-week program for high...
by Itzel Martinez | Jun 8, 2015 | Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control
Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, gave a speech after receiving the Corporate Leadership award at EPIC’s Champions of Freedom event in Washington. (EPIC is the Electronic Privacy Information Center.) Mr. Cook touched upon three important topics relating to privacy,...
by Itzel Martinez | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work
Strong passwords are important in preventing data breaches, but the top five passwords in 2014 were strings like “123456” and “password”, which are predictable. How can we then prevent cyberattacks from happening? TechNewsWorld covered a...
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