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I Know What You Did! |
Good morning!
Trent Steele here with
all the hottest technology news, software
downloads, and your personalized weekly
recommendations.
How
will privacy progress in 2012?
Predictions include attacks on
businesses and government agencies
via online activism.
Cloud computing and social
networking will raise more legal
concerns.
Mobile computing is sure to be top
of the list.
But will privacy policies serve to
protect the user more effectively...
... or simply give companies even
more information about what we get
up to?
Read this week's bonus article
below for some insight into just how
easily your movements can be -- and
are being -- tracked through
technology.
Enjoy: and have a great week --
Trent Steele, Site Manager.
http://www.privacy-central.com
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I Know
What You Did At 3:30 A.M. |
2011 saw a number of significant privacy events.
From Facebook and Google Plus dueling over privacy policies to concerns over
what information your mobile phone actually knows about you. However, technology
keeps moving forward, and privacy issues are sure to follow. For a peek into
what experts expect in the year and years ahead when it comes to privacy, we
turned to Rebecca Herold (aka the Privacy Professor) for answers.
Herold is an information security, privacy and compliance consultant, is
currently working on her 12th published book, and has written dozens of book
chapters and almost 200 articles on privacy and security.
CSOonline: With a spate of data dumps as a result of security breaches,
many security and privacy issues arising from mobile and cloud computing, what
do you think 2012 has in store when it comes to privacy?
I think 2012 is going to be a lot like 2011. We'll see more attacks on
businesses and government agencies stemming from online activism. Probably more
legal concerns and battling over what privacy means in the age of cloud
computing and social networking. And I think we're going to see more issues of
mobile computing, along the lines of the Carrier IQ incident.
The Carrier IQ situation had touched a real nerve with a lot of folks, beyond
the normal crowds interested in privacy. There are a lot of people I have known
all my life, relatives and parents of classmates from elementary school, and
everyone in between. It is interesting because they are not techie at all, but
many were asking what handset and mobile companies were learning about them and
what could be done to stop it.
Another area that I think will get more attention is the privacy around smart
grid. That is going to be an ongoing concern. And as more states and utilities
are rolling out their smart meters, I think you're going to see a lot more
states trying to pass more smart grid privacy laws.
CSOonline: Smart grid privacy is an interesting topic, though I'm not
sure many people understand why it may be so important. They wonder "What's the
big deal if they can see when my electricity usage spikes?"
Yes. That's very understandable. The NIST Interagency Report 7628 that came out
last year identified a lot of the privacy issues. From a high level, with regard
to privacy, is the fact that, historically, you had to be a meter-reader coming
to a house and to take a reading. All everyone else would see is a spinning
wheel. It didn't tell you very much more than sometimes it spun faster and other
times it spun slower.
Now, with smart meters, the data is going directly to the utilities, many times
by Wi-Fi. The fact that somebody driving by might pick it up, and from the data
they could gather all sorts of information regarding the types of appliances you
are using, where you are in the house, and so on. So there are many different
privacy issues related to this. What if appliance manufacturers get this
information? Are they going to start trying to sell a household their product to
replace their inefficient one that they see you still have?
CSOonline: It sounds like it's possible to find out much about a person
and their household from their power usage.
Yes, the impact is broad. Consider divorce settlements. Will it be possible to
prove that your spouse or ex-spouse was doing something they should not have at
3:30 in the morning in the hot tub based upon your energy consumption record?
With the private electric vehicles, are you going to be able to tell exactly
where somebody was at any point in time based upon their charging records?
By looking at the utility bill, would you be able to see when someone was
traveling and so on? Would home insurance companies, by knowing whether or not
you are using an inefficient appliance, potentially deny you coverage because
they could show that you were using appliances that were in violation of the
home insurance policy?
Then there are employers. What if you had something personal happen, and you
told your employer that you were sick, and you lose because they could tell from
your PEV -- your electric vehicle charging records -- that you were actually out
in Las Vegas doing stuff that day. The examples are just unlimited, and more and
more people are having concerns.
The NISTIR 7628 was a start, and we listed a number of important issues, and
that work is continuing. Expect more work products from the group coming out
very soon.
CSOonline: Are there other areas where you see potential privacy flaps in
2012?
Social media is always a concern, and I think the integration of social media
use by businesses and other organizations is going to continue to raise new
privacy concerns. For instance, hospitals and physicians and other groups are
promoting the use of social networking sites by physicians to help their
patients, which, of course, sounds like a great idea. But then you dig into what
happens, especially when the physicians do not know how to use the social
network very well, information about their patients gets posted for the whole
world to see.
Here's a recent and shocking example.
A vendor that provides hospital systems had a type of authentication device. And
they were encouraging the hospital staff to just use their Facebook passwords so
they could automatically link their Facebook account with their system. And this
device provided access into the patient care system!
"It would make it really easy to manage," they said.
So this connection of social networking devices to non-public systems like that
will be another area that is going to see increasing numbers of privacy
concerns. |
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| By
George V. Hulme. |
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