Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-10-8
[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] Fraud Detection Should be Color Blind
“…When she wrote later in the article that the laws in Virginia are particularly strict, I thought perhaps that explains the difference in her experience and mine. But then she wrote what I think is probably the real reason for the scrutiny - ’shopping while black.’”
Jeff Jonas: Six Ticks till Midnight: One Plausible Journey from Here to a Total Surveillance Society
“Why are more people not working on privacy-preserving technology e.g., anonymization, immutable audit, selective revelation, data masking, data expiration and destruction services, etc. – and more importantly why are not more organizations starting to take advantage of these emerging privacy-enhancing alternatives?”
Post Gazette: Retailers check receipts at front door to combat losses from theft — but at what cost?
“The reality is nobody’s really happy about the situation, said Chris E. McGoey, a Los Angeles security consultant who writes about such issues on his Web site, www.crimedoctor.com. ‘Retailers hate doing this,’ he said. ‘It’s bad for business. They know it’s bad customer relations.’”
“According to the University of Florida 2002 National Retail Security Survey, employee theft was estimated to be responsible for 48% of store inventory shrinkage. That represents an estimated employee theft price tag of about 15-billion dollars per year. This astounding figure makes employee dishonesty the greatest single threat to profitability at the store level.”
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