Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-3-26
“Faced with an 11 percent countywide spike in thefts last year, county police officers are trying new techniques to stop thieves and shoplifters in north and west county. . . . County police are analyzing data collected to glean details about hot spots, repeat offenders and high-theft items, said Sgt. John Gilmer, a county police department spokesman.”
CarInsurance.com:Lawsuit Accuses Trio in LV
“Shelley Beeler, a spokeswoman for Allstate’s southwest region, which includes Nevada, said the estimate of fraudulent payments is unknown but is believed to be in excess of $75,000. The case and others like it are brought by the company when evidence of fraud is uncovered, she said. . . . Beeler said fraud can add hundreds of dollars each year to the cost of a consumer’s auto insurance policy. The company has a special investigations unit that continually looks for evidence of fraudulent activity, she said.”
ars technica: Analysis: the Obama/Hillary passport breaches and Real ID [Update: McCain too]
“Presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are currently providing the country with a very public lesson in why the ‘privacy advocates’ who oppose initiatives like Real ID and the executive branch’s domestic surveillance programs should really be called ‘democracy advocates.’ In short, only a full investigation will determine whether Executive Branch contractors had political ends in mind when they inappropriately accessed the passport records of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on multiple occasions, but the entire incident shows exactly why citizens’ privacy is critical in a country where citizens compete with one another for control of the government.”
b-eye.com - Business Intelligence Network: The Role of Business Intelligence in Managing Compliance
“Healthcare and biopharma organizations are flush with data. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could instead say that these organizations are flush with information or flush with insights? Certainly these organizations are built upon the back of innovation, but it’s probably safe to say that on the whole their data is, well, a mess. Sure, it’s fine in most areas, but then most areas are isolated from one another – which ensures that identifying and merging diverse data sources will generally be challenging. This makes it difficult to glean insightful information from across the whole of the enterprise’s data. So what can be done?”
advertising practitioner: non-obvious, surprise, reality
“There’s a guy in Las Vegas who builds computer systems and trains them in Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness. The casinos there are regular targets for fraudsters and tricksters, often colluding with employees, hoping to sneak themselves some undetected winnings under cover of the mass of gaming transactions that happen every minute. So these systems have to act incredibly quickly; matching information from employee databases with known lists of bad guys, arrest records, customer information, credit reports and all sorts of publicly available data. They’re looking for non-obvious relationships - like the fact that the guy who’s winning lots of cash on table fourteen shares a cellphone number with the dealer on the adjacent table.”
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