Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Data Leakage From Official Sources

One of the arguments for ubiquitous spying is that it will catch criminals and keep data held only by government organizations. An argument against this would be that data will leak from those same organizations, so that there really isn't any privacy once such spying starts.

Here are examples of leakage:

New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities

Sony offers identity theft protection, little news on PSN relaunch

UK military laptop theft exposes thousands to risk of identity theft


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