Identity Resolution Daily Links 2007-11-5
LossPreventionWorld: e-fencing: Hawking Stolen Goods on eBay
“An ever-increasing volume of merchandise showing up on Internet auction sites like eBay has either been stolen by organized, professional shoplifting rings or counterfeited by people seeking to profit from the prestige of a popular brand. . . Limited Brands is among the retailers currently in discussions with eBay attorneys, trying to identify practices and procedures that eBay could put in place to help retailers recoup some of their losses attributable to the sales of stolen and counterfeit merchandise. Among other things, Limited Brands would like eBay and other online auction sites to work collaboratively with retail LP teams without retailers having to wait for a law enforcement investigator to request that kind of cooperation, says vice president of loss prevention John Talamo.”
PogoWasRight.org: Why states are resisting U.S. on plan for REAL I.D.
“Behind much of the state legislative opposition to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plan is Missouri state Rep. Jim Guest, a conservative Republican. His primary concern: REAL ID, as DHS has dubbed the initiative, would not deter terrorists. Instead, he believes, it would be an unprecedented invasion of individual privacy, creating a databank of personal information to which officials on the local, state, and federal levels would have access.”
Jeff Jonas: The Triadic Continuum
“[… a computer data structure that is self organizing - in other words, a data structure that naturally organizes new data by either building on the existing data sequences or adding to the structure as new data are introduced.] This makes me wonder if they have been working on the ripple effect that can happen when a new observation invalidates an earlier disambiguation or relationship assertions.”
Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds: eBay shoppers crack QVC fraud case
“A woman has pleaded guilty to fleecing the QVC home-shopping networking of more than $412,000 by exploiting a gaping hole in its website that allowed her to receive merchandise without paying for them. Quantina Moore-Perry ordered handbags, jewelry and electronics and then immediately canceled the transactions. The flaw allowed the North Carolina woman to take delivery of more than 1,800 items without being billed. Moore-Perry would then sell the booty on eBay, according to the Associated Press, which cited authorities.”
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