Friday, August 21, 2009

Privacy and Security Bits and Bytes

Our Friday afternoon feature -

No Anonymity -- This week’s ruling by the New York State Supreme Court that resulted in the “outing” of a blogger who made unfavorable comments about a Canadian model has online privacy groups reacting to the “skank” case

No Sale of Data for Clear - To update earlier posts here about the now-defunct biometric airline passenger data company, Clear, Wired reports that a federal judge in Manhattan has ordered Clear not to sell the biometric data of its customers. The judge said that doing so would be breach of Clear’s contracts with customers.

Radisson Reports Breach - ComputerWorld reports on the latest data breach, this one at the Radisson Hotels site. Radisson posts an Open Letter to its guests, but doesn’t give much information. Check your accounts…..