Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-08-07
[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] With Seconds to Spare, Retail Profits Walk out the Door Wearing Ill-gained Nike Tennis Shoes
“How the clerk reacts in the next few seconds is the difference between profit in the bank and loss walking (in Nike tennis shoes) out the front door. If the clerk takes the wrong action, your store can lose a valuable customer for life over a false positive. Now imagine you’re a big retailer like Macy’s and this losing-your-best-customers-in-seconds scenario plays out thousands of times a day in the 850 stores you operate in 45 states.”
Spero News: A risk-based approach for homeland security
“Without robust and coherent risk assessment, states may spend too much to protect against high consequence-low probability threats (e.g., 11 September), at the expense of protecting against low consequence-high probability threats (e.g., London bombings in July 2005). Consequently, a net security effect for the state may not be created despite huge homeland security investments. This is because a state’s increased protection of a particular sector may lead to terrorists targeting other lesser protected sectors.”
Government Technology: DHS Posts Privacy Act Notice
“According to a statement by Homeland Security Chief Privacy Officer Hugo Teufel III, the Department of Homeland Security has posted on its Web site, and will publish on Monday in the Federal Register, four Privacy Act records involving the Automated Targeting System (ATS). The records are an updated System of Records Notice (SORN), the discussion of public comments received on the SORN, a notice of proposed rulemaking for privacy act exemptions, and a privacy impact assessment (PIA). In doing so, said Teufel, the department has strengthened privacy protections for all individuals traveling in to and out of the United States.”
Danger Room: TSA Screening: The Video Game
“Screening for bombs is boring work, so why not try to make it more fun? That’s the idea behind a video game developed by Carnegie Mellon Professor (and MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award winner) Luis von Ahn. The video game is designed to help improve the Transportation Security Administration’s airport screeners, according to Government Security News (article is not online, sadly).”
Arabisto.com: The Politics of Naming: Post-9/11 Security and the Transliteration of Arabic Names
“Khalid al-Masri is a suspected member of al Qaeda but Khaled el-Masri is not. Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is not welcome in the United States but United Airlines let him board a plane from London because the spelling on the list it got from the Department of Homeland Security was different. And according to a company that makes software used to translate Arabic names into the Roman alphabet, there are 200 ways to spell Mohammed.”
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