Yet another company is victim of a major data breach. This time it’s discount broker TD Ameritrade: In a press release, TD Ameritrade this morning confirmed reports that it has been informing customers of a potential security breach. The release does not confirm the figure of 6.3 million customers, but a company spokesperson did give [...]
Entries from September 15th, 2007
Data Breach Impacts TD Ameritrade’s 6.3 Million Customers
September 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Data Breaches
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Too Sexy to Fly? Southwest Airlines Apologizes, Belatedly
September 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Privacy and Cultural Trends
In an era of extensive security regulations at airports, the lengthy ritual of security checks we must undergo to fly, we surrender our privacy. How much privacy we should relinquish for the sake of security has been and will debated for years to come. While on the surface, it may seem a trivial matter, this [...]
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Google Makes Official Announcement Favoring Global Privacy Laws
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Search Engines and Privacy
Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, has posted the anticipated announcement on Google’s Public Policy Blog: The problem of international data flow and privacy is not new. Potential problems were identified as early as the 1980s. At that time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) established the first “fair information principles.” Twenty years [...]
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