Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-07-12
[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] Knowledge Center: Guest Blogger Jeff Stein
“Back when Jeff first started at a store detective, the sole method of catching shoplifters was either through undercover detectives posing as customers, or through old fashioned observations made by security staff from atop handmade perches. Come back tomorrow for Part One of Jeff’s two-part post, ‘Loss Prevention — Then vs. Now.’”
Jon Udell: Data finds data, then people find people
“Here’s an example of ‘the data finds the data’ in Jeff’s world, from his article in IEEE Security and Privacy entitled Threat and Fraud Intelligence, Las Vegas Style [PDF]. You have two records that refer to the same person, but you don’t know that they do. Then a third record appears which relates to each of the first two, and which establishes that all three refer to the same person. The first two pieces of data find one another, through the agency of a third piece of data.”
CNET News.com: Interpol chief wants databases to track criminals
“…there is no centralized international database of passports used in travel, which Noble said could eventually be expanded to track fugitives and people such as sex offenders who may be barred from traveling to certain countries known for sex tourism as part of their probation. ‘I believe that a country has a right to know where its passport goes,” he said. “Wherever a country wants to track the passport, as long as its laws allow it, and it doesn’t violate (Interpol’s) constitution, we’re prepared to support it.’”
“As we step up efforts to protect ourselves against new threats, it becomes even more vital that the government enforce the laws intended to protect Americans against unnecessary privacy invasions.”
Realtime IT Compliance: Privacy: Are You Sure You *REALLY* Have Nothing To Hide?
In the paper “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy, “there is also a great privacy taxonomy Solove had previously proposed included in the paper. It helps to make the concept of privacy something more than just a vague, subjective term. It is something organizations could use to help build privacy and security into their procedures, operations, networks and IT applications.”
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