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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Study: State AGs Fail to Adequately Protect Online Consumers Statement: State attorneys general received thousands of complaints about online fraud and abuse in 2006 and... |
8/12/2008 | |
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Study: Customer, Corporate Data at Risk in Telecommuting Environment Statement: Telecommuting and the virtual office put sensitive corporate data, including the personal... |
7/29/2008 | |
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Security and Privacy Risks of Telecommuting Not Effectively Being Addressed Press Release: Contact: Brock N Meeks, CDT (202) 637-9800 ex. 114 (703) 989-3547 (cell) WASHINGTON, D.C. -... |
7/22/2008 | |
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CDT Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee on State Dept. Passport Privacy Breaches Statement: CDT told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that the illegal browsing of passport information by... |
7/10/2008 | |
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Government ID Theft Plan Addresses Problem at the Edges Statement: The government's strategic plan to combat identity theft -- unveiled earlier today by the Justice... |
4/23/2007 |
Policy Posts deliver in-depth analysis of current issues affecting the Internet. These documents are a leading resource for policy makers, the press, industry representatives, students, and others interested in legal and policy issues affecting the Internet.
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| Rise of Telecommuting Poses Unique Privacy and Security Threats to Company Networks | Telecommuting, a practice increasingly favored by employers and workers alike, has a great deal to... | 11/26/2008 | |
| Veterans Data Breach Highlights Inadequate Privacy Protections | The revelation that the Department of Veterans Affairs allowed the personal data of millions of men... | 5/31/2006 | |
| Congress Considers Data Security Legislation | If nothing else positive has come from the seemingly unending string of data security breaches at... | 9/7/2005 | |
| Recent Information Security Breaches Raise Privacy Concerns | Recent stories about security breaches at ChoicePoint and Bank of America Corp. and about the... | 3/8/2005 |
Find all our latest testimony, papers, and other reports here.
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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 |