New state law bans employer credit checks in hiring

Character assassination by HR department employees favoring friends in applicant pool:  $5 million

Privacy violation by leaks of credit reports of applicants by HR department employees:  $6 million

Actually having to do an interview and decide on ability rather than circumstance:  Priceless!

Clout St: New state law bans employer credit checks in hiring

Bravo, Illinois!

TV Personality home address revealed by his cell phone photo. Yours is too.

Ever heard of "Geotags?"

Geotags are embedded in the photos taken by 'smart' mobile phones, and they give the exact longitude and latitude where the photo was taken. So disable the feature if your phone allows it, and be aware that when you post that photo on Twitter, Facebook or your blog, anyone can tell where it was taken.

Full Story:

Web Photo Geotags Can Reveal More Than You Wish - NYTimes.com

Think twice before referencing a photo to yourself, your home, or anyone else's. You may be jeopardizing the safety of your friends, your family, or yourself.

The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets - WSJ.com

PC's gather personal data, sell it for one tenth of a penny:

The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets - WSJ.com

BlackBerry bites back at governments | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Since President Obama's high-profile blackberry use, the platform has become one of the most secure. Intrustive governments, finding it the only phone they can't routinely monitor, are threatening to ban it's use.

Can Blackberry hold the fort?

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BlackBerry bites back at governments Technology guardian.co.uk

Used Copiers - Your Data For Sale

Your Doctors office, employer, bank, car dealer, mortgage company and others are selling hard drives containing perfect copies of your most private information.

In fact, nearly everything ever copied, scanned or faxed in the past decade is likely for sale in various warehouses full of second hand copiers.

Privacyauthority.org's previous posting regarding the risks of copy machines was met with disbelief. The following additional piece from CBS News may bring the proper level of attention to the matter.


Watch the CBS News Story

Craigs List Ad Leads to Home Invasion

A few simple guidelines:
1. Never sell anything from your home.
2. Never reveal your home address to anyone whom you do not want to come to your house, including anyone from a cashier to a police officer.
3. Remove your home address from your ID. Nobody needs to know where your kids sleep in order to do business with you, or issue you a drivers license.
Another case of home invasion due to a published address in a classified ad, ending in tragedy. Don't be next.
FULL STORY:

Craigslist diamond ad leads to deadly home invasion, police say - CNN.com

Legal Syping Via Mobile Phone - Who's listening to your voicemail?

Private parties legally gather all caller ID data in a given region, find your name, access your voicemail, texts, conversations ad in-person meetings, all through your phone.

The Chief Information Officer of the Consular Chamber or Commerce refuses to carry a mobile phone. Heres' why:

Legal spying via the cell phone system | InSecurity Complex - CNET News