Apparently companies are even worse about losing our data than we suspected. From the article:'According to a study of 106 major U.S. airports and 800 business travelers published by the Ponemon Institute and Dell Computer, about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week. Only 30 percent of travelers ever recover the lost devices. Nearly half of the travelers say their laptops contain customer data or confidential business information.'
Webtapping refers to the practice of logging the IP addresses of users that access certain websites. Though it is allowed by the PATRIOT Act, it is considered by many to be at the very least a questionable practice, if not an all-out violation of civil liberties. [edit—WikiPedia] This blog discusses privacy and security matters in the era of Social Networking, Blogging, WiFi, hosted emails and files and the Patriot Act and the Great Firewall of China.
Friday, 4 July 2008
Lost or stolen laptops and your privacy
I just saw this story on Slashdot:
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