Data Security/Breach
New technology has created powerful new ways to gather, store, sort, analyze, locate, correlate, and disseminate data. This has enabled increasingly intensive use of personal data, which can deliver significant benefits. But the growing use of personal data raises a host of privacy challenges as well. Most consumers have only a limited understanding of the multiple ways that their data is used and shared in today’s data economy. Since the widely publicized security breach at ChoicePoint in 2005, there has been a nearly continuous stream of announcements of data security breaches at companies, government agencies, and universities. Consumers are concerned that they lack control over their personal information, and identity theft has become all too frequent.
Despite the unprecedented challenges to privacy in the modern environment, there is still no comprehensive law that spells out consumers’ privacy rights in the commercial marketplace. Instead, a confusing patchwork of distinct standards hast been developed over the years, with highly uneven results and many gaps in coverage.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Three Data Security Bills Blog Post: Three bills cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee in a markup session yesterday, bringing federal... |
9/23/2011 | |
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Congressional Data Breach Bills Compared Blog Post: Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D... |
7/22/2011 | |
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CDT Testifies at Hearing on Data Theft Blog Post: CDT's Justin Brookman testifies before the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce,... |
5/9/2011 | |
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Gawker Breach Victims Aided by Unexpected Allies (Updated) Blog Post: If you read blogs at all you have probably heard of Gawker Media. The megablog is the umbrella for... |
12/15/2010 | |
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House passes Data Breach and File Sharing Disclosure Bills Blog Post: The House of Representatives yesterday passed two bills that CDT testified on back in May. H.... |
12/9/2009 |
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The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers Testimony: Two high profile data (Sony's Playstation and Epsilon) breaches have grabbed headlines lately... |
Justin Brookman | 5/4/2011 | |
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Statement of Leslie Harris Testimony: Statement of Leslie Harris before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on... |
Leslie Harris | 4/23/2009 | |
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Rise of Telecommuting Poses Unique Privacy and Security Threats to Company Networks Policy Post: Telecommuting, a practice increasingly favored by employers and workers alike, has a great deal to... |
11/26/2008 | ||
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Veterans Data Breach Highlights Inadequate Privacy Protections Policy Post: The revelation that the Department of Veterans Affairs allowed the personal data of millions of men... |
5/31/2006 | ||
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Congress Considers Data Security Legislation Policy Post: If nothing else positive has come from the seemingly unending string of data security breaches at... |
9/7/2005 |