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[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] Is privacy in the control of individuals or the businesses watching them?

The issue of personal-versus-corporate accountability is actually the underlying heart of our privacy-versus-security debate. Put another way, are individuals data-savvy enough to protect our own identity information, or can we trust Big Business to use data in responsible ways?

Scientific American: A Little Privacy, Please

“Several years ago Scott McNealy, chair­man of Sun Microsystems, famous-ly quipped, ‘Privacy is dead. Get over it.’ [Latanya] Sweeney couldn’t disagree more. ‘Privacy is definitely not dead,” she counters; those who believe it is “haven’t actually thought the problem through, or they aren’t willing to accept the solution.’”

Realtime IT Compliance: PII in PDF Metadata…Yes, It Can Happen When You Aren’t Looking!

“For example, when doing a search for “John Doe” (name obviously changed) within a PDF I found, the search results showed for each instance of John Doe within the PDF his home address, phone number, and email address. This was not visible if I was only just viewing the document, but it was visible within the search results; in the metadata.”

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