Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-02-20
[Post from Infoglide] The Human Element in Identity Resolution
We’ve written quite a few posts here on the subject of identity resolution’s application to a broad range of problems that include terrorism, insurance fraud, crime, lottery fraud, sexual predators, workers comp employer fraud, and retail returns fraud. What we haven’t discussed very much is the relationship between the technology and the human beings that employ it.
Boston Globe: Woman to be sentenced in asbestos case
“Deleon ‘cheated the system’ in two ways to enrich herself, according to the government’s case. Under her ownership, Environmental Compliance Training issued false asbestos removal training certificates and lied about it to the state. She also evaded payroll taxes and workers’ compensation insurance premiums by paying hundreds of employees of Methuen Abatement Staffing under the table. The company had a gross unreported payroll of $4.6 million from 2002 to 2006, according to a government document introduced at the trial.”
New Mexico Independent: Homeland security ‘fusion centers’ are working, but concerns abound
“The federal assessment of the nation’s fusion centers — which borrows heavily from earlier reports by such internal watchdogs as the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and General Accountability Office (GAO) — lists a few privacy, transparency and oversight concerns about the fusion centers.
Wall Street Journal: Tips for TSA to Make Flying Safer, Easier
“Some experts suggest that the TSA cut back on the air marshal program, which puts law-enforcement agents on some flights, and shift spending to more effective security measures. Experts also want to see major changes in the current Registered Traveler program to further speed up security procedures for frequent travelers and focus resources on travelers who haven’t undergone background checks. They also want to see more variation to today’s predictable screening so bad guys don’t know exactly how to circumvent security.”
Gartner: Can “single view” of master data be achieved without an MDM technology?
[Andrew White] “Certainly users have been trying to achieve ’single view’ for many years, before the phrase master data management was coined. The problem of trying to maintain a semantically consistent definition of master data across the business has been a long standing desire for most firms. It is because business (and to a great extend, IT also) has grown to be so complex, that since 2000 many firms have begun to look to specific tools to help.”
WorkersCompensation.com: Chenango Man Charged As Fraud In Fish Story
“Investigators from NYSIF’s Division of Confidential Investigations said Mr. Panus was receiving workers’ compensation payments for a work-related back injury that occurred in 1988. The investigation, conducted in cooperation with the New York State Insurance Department Frauds Bureau and the Office of the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General, found that Mr. Panus was allegedly self-employed as the owner of Ponderosa Fish Farm while receiving benefits totaling $66,100.”
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