Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-1-14
Fox Business: High Shrink Takes a Toll on the Bottomline of Retail Enterprises
“Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS: 13.90, +0.17, +1.23%), surveyed 680 retail enterprises in October 2007 and found that on an average, 60% of retailers surveyed recorded year-over-year shrink or write-off of at least 1.75% of their total inventory (as a percent of sales), further compounding existing theft and fraud-related complexities in retail. Another alarming trend is that almost a third of retailers (30%) have reported between 2% to 6% invalid transactions (unauthorized and fraudulent customer transactions as a percentage of total transactions). This indicates that retailers may be faced with high transaction fraud incidence due to organized retail crime, data loss, and dishonest employees. . . . Cash asset protection, real-time video and transaction data intelligence, and access control are some of the pillars that enable retailers across different sub-segments to build an agile and responsive loss prevention environment.”
Yahoo! News: New ID rules may complicate air travel
“Millions of air travelers may find going through airport security much more complicated this spring, as the Bush administration heads toward a showdown with state governments over post-Sept. 11 rules for new driver’s licenses. By May, the dispute could leave millions of people unable to use their licenses to board planes, but privacy advocates called that a hollow threat by federal officials.”
“German Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (Work Group on Data Retention) has announced a constitutional appeal if the German government agrees to back plans by the EU Commission to retain Passenger Name Records for 13 years.”
WashingtonTechnology: Web extra: States face Real ID privacy dilemma
“‘If you centralize it, it would be easier to manage in terms of security and privacy,’ said Harold Kocken, business solution manager of BearingPoint’s national motor vehicle solutions group. ‘There would be fewer people with the possibility of interfering with the database.’ . . . The verification grant program will expand a pilot project run by the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems. Named the Electronic Verification of Vital Events, it is operating with three states that can originate queries and nine states that can respond to the queries. Using the system, operators type information for verification, such as someone’s full name and date of birth, and the system automatically processes the query to determine if there is a match with the original birth certificate. The response is either ‘match’ or ‘no match.’ It attaches notes about suspected misspellings and near matches.”
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