Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-2-4
The Bunker Blog: Five Common Indicators Of Employee Theft
“Do you trust your employees? Sure we all want to believe that our employees are honest, and that they would never betray our trust in them by stealing money or merchandise from us. However, the fact is that, statistically, 2 in 10 employees will steal, given the right opportunity. That rate rises even higher when numerous conditions are met. So, do you, as a business owner, know what to look for so that you can minimize your risk of being a victim of theft by your employees?”
U.S. News & World Report: Air Your Security Gripes on TSA Blog
“Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren’t paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets frisked? The federal government wants to hear - or at least read - your gripes at the “Evolution of Security” blog the Transportation Security Administration introduced Wednesday. And it promises those complaints and suggestions won’t vanish into thin air.”
beye.com - Business Intelligence Network: Clinton and Obama Debate Data Integration. (Who Knew?)
“Tihs isn’t a partisan blog. I’ve been watching both the Democratic and Republican debates, and there are lessons for business all ’round. But there aren’t always lucid links between politics and data. So I was particularly rapt during last week’s Democratic Clinton-Obama debate at L.A.’s Kodak Theater (not co-incidently the home of American Idol, another popular circus), when our old friend Wolf Blitzer raised the topic of health care, speculating on how potential reforms would be funded. In her characteristic earnest and prepared style, Hillary Clinton advocated electronic medical records (EMRs) as one of the ways of paying for reform.”
[Note: Look for our upcoming blog post on Identity Resolution vs. Data Integration, a part of our series on Mistaken Identity Resolution.]
ars technica: Unchecked surveillance threatens security as well as privacy
“The debate over changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act —the legal framework governing how agencies like the NSA conduct wiretaps—is typically framed as a contest between the competing values of security and privacy. But in an article published in the latest issue of IEEE Security & Privacy, a team of top network security experts argue that large-scale digital surveillance creates new security risks and vulnerabilities as well.”
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