Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries Tagged as 'Privacy'

Mandatory censorship of the internet

January 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · New Media, Privacy, Social Networks, Technology · 1,772 views

The new Labour Government had announced there intend as part of the election campaign to introduce filtering of the internet and on Dec 31st they provided further details on what would be happening with mandatory filtering of the Internet by ISPs.
Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean [...]

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More on privacy, the workplace & social network software

November 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Privacy, Social Networks · 1,397 views

Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard about the sites called Facebook, or MySpace, and their professional cousin LinkedIn, you might even remember their predecessors Friendster. These sites are basically social network software/service (SNS) where you connect with other people and share information.
Today I read a great article by Cory [...]

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Privacy of personal data

November 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment · HRIS, Privacy · 1,355 views

I haven’t written about data privacy in a while but I could not help it. The “little” issue in the UK in the last couple of days has brought the topic back up. The UK Taxman has “misplaced” 2 CDs full of personal and banking details of about 25 million people. To make matters worse [...]

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Is privacy a C level concern?

April 14th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Digital Identity, Privacy · 1,666 views

Privacy of your employee and customer data should be one of the top priorities of any board for any organisation. However sometimes C level exec’s are more interested in things right in front of them, like this quarters sales or the new product introduction.
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Social Engineering

June 9th, 2006 · No Comments · Privacy, Technology · 1,623 views

I found this very disturbing article from Techmemeorandum about using social engineering to compromise an organisations security defences, the troubling part about this example was how easily the defences were breached. As seen in this quote they had 75% success rate allowing them access to a vast number of systems in the target organisation.
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