Privacy Risk Predictions Based on Fundamental Understanding of Personal Data and an Evolving Threat Landscape

It is difficult for individuals and organizations to protect personal information without a fundamental understanding of relative privacy risks. By analyzing over 5,000 empirical identity theft and fraud cases, this research identifies which types of personal data are exposed, how frequently...

White House Cyber-Security Strategy Could Guard Health Care Payments !

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to help consumers pay for services such as health care more securely and avoid identity theft. Recent guidelines issued by the White House on cyber-security could provide an impetus for secure online bill paying in health care,...

Dept. of Commerce Unveils the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a press conference this morning to unveil details surrounding a National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC as they are calling it. While the press conference was somewhat vague in terms of specifics, the initiative appears to be designed to...

Obama wants Internet ID for Every American !!

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour's plan for biometric identity cards. That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to...