New Resource Page: An Overview of Education Privacy
by Daniel J. Solove I recently created a new resource page for the TeachPrivacy site: An Overview of Education Privacy.
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New Resource Page: Privacy and Security Training Requirements
by Daniel J. Solove I have created a new resource page for the TeachPrivacy website: Privacy and Security Training Requirements.
Privacy Professional Salaries and Women in the Privacy Industry
by Daniel J. Solove The IAPP recently released a report on the salaries of privacy professionals, and the findings are quite interesting. According to the results:
Green Eggs and Ham: How Not to Market and Invade Privacy
By Daniel J. Solove Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham is a timeless classic that is read to millions of children. At first the simple rhymes and cute drawings are alluring. But parents will soon discover the book’s terrifying equation: The tiresome repetition of the book multiplied by the number of times a child will […]
Health Data Security in Crisis, Phase 2 Audits, and Other HIPAA Privacy + Security Updates
By Daniel J. Solove Co-authored with Professor Paul Schwartz This post is part of a post series where we round up some of the interesting news and resources we’re finding. We have split the health/HIPAA material from our updates on other topics. To see our updates for other topics, click here. For a PDF version […]
The Terrifying Math of Phishing
by Daniel J. Solove Although we are seeing increasingly more sophisticated attempts at phishing, it appears as though many phishers still haven’t been able to get their hands on a program with spell check. Why are we still seeing the $10 million lottery winning emails? Or the long lost relative of yours living in Fiji […]
Myths About Privacy Law and the First Amendment
by Daniel J. Solove In Sorrell vs. IMS Health, 131 S. Ct. 2653 (2011), the Supreme Court struck down Vermont’s Prescription Confidentiality Law as a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech. The Vermont law restricted the sale and marketing use of information that would identify prescribers without their consent. The Supreme Court […]
Chart of the Largest Data Breaches in the World
by Daniel J. Solove Over at the website, Information Is Beautiful, is this amazing chart of the biggest data breaches in the world. Who knew data breaches could be so beautiful? For those who have suffered from their data being lost in a data breach to those who have suffered because they had to clean […]
Troublesome Password Practices and the Need for Data Security Training
By Daniel J. Solove A recent study by TeleSign revealed that many people engage in some troublesome password practices. Some of the most alarming findings from the report include: — 73% of accounts use duplicate passwords. — Nearly half of consumers have a password they haven’t changed in 5+ years — “Consumers have an average […]
5 Great Novels About Privacy and Security
I am a lover of literature (I teach a class in law and literature), and I also love privacy and security, so I thought I’d list some of my favorite novels about privacy and security. I’m also trying to compile a more comprehensive list of literary works about privacy and security, and I welcome your […]