Data Privacy G.Maruthi What is data privacy? • Protection of personal data • Why do we need protect personal data? – The need to control personal data • • • • Fear of misuse Identity Theft Cases of Fraud Other form of cyber crimes What is Personal Information? • According to the European Directive on Data Protection – Article 2: “Personal Data shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable person is one who can be
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Running head: HIPPA IS BEING VIOLATED ON A DAILY BASIS HIPPA is Being Violated on a Daily Basis Anita Byarse Axia College Effective Persuasive Writing Com 120 Carolyn Parker Jul 23, 2006 HIPPA is Being Violated on a Daily Basis On June 14, 2006 I went to the doctor’s office to pick up a friend and while I was sitting in the waiting area a woman came in and went to the front desk to check in. After a few minutes she was called to the back and when the ladies behind the desk
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CRIME Application Paper Molly Flannery DeVry University CYBER CRIME Application Paper Cyber crime is a crime committed online, as opposed to the physical world. In a business setting, cyber crime can occur in several instances: scams, identity theft, white-collar fraud, check or credit/debit card fraud, retail fraud, auction fraud, employment fraud, etc. (Miller & Jentz, 2012) Credit-card crime is more likely to hurt merchants and credit-card issuers than the consumer. The financial
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Consumers no longer have to go to a store to make purchases, buy groceries, nor go to the Motor Vehicle Administration to renew their tags. Technology has made it so that you can complete these transactions with a click of a mouse. However, it is also increasingly easy to steal someone’s information. The personal information each site collects can be sold and used by third party organizations. This personal information which is respectively called Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is, “any
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Information Technology Acts Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA) Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999 (COPPA) Christopher Barrera BIS/220 June 3, 2013 Information Technology Acts Paper The CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) of 2000 was created and enacted by Congress to address the concerns about obscene and harmful content found over the internet that was becoming readily accessible to children. The CIPA was created directly
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Both businesses and citizens are prone to these attacks because most of the time they don’t even know it is happening until it is far too late, or sometimes referred to as a drive-by-download. Another threat that is a high security risk is identity theft, and 65% of Americans polled said they were very worried about it
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It was reported that thieves stole massive amounts of credit and debit card information during the holiday season which also swept up names, addresses and phone numbers of their customers, information that could put victims at greater risk for identity theft. The Problem The Target breach is ranked as one of the worst ever. During the peak of the holiday season that year Target said that up to 40 million customers’ credit/debit card information had been stolen from people who shopped
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What laws were violated? What actions did you commit that you should not have committed? How can you remedy and prevent this from occurring again?1 The attacker can be charged with the following Violations: No Electronic Theft Act (18 U.S.C. § 506). Identity Theft & Assumption Deterrence Act (18 U.S.C. § 1028). Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers (18 U.S.C. § 1030). Interception and Disclosure of Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communications (18 U.S.C. § 2511). Unlawful
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around town. She had a history of forging the SSNs and licenses. Although not highlighted in the article, it would be within her to use the falsified identities on the checks to ensure they could be cashed. The use of these identities would also assist her and her group to get around internal controls of banks or stores and help her conceal the theft. Lastly, she is accused of using company bank account information to forge checks (Ferrise, 2013). She established a pattern of forging checks. She
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[pic] Data protection and privacy ethical guidelines This document was produced on September the 18th 2009 The version of this document is: 5 Experts Working Group on data protection and privacy Chaired by: Caroline Gans-Combe Special thanks to the Panel Members: Andrew Bottomley, Duarte Carvalho-Oliveira, Costas A. Charitidis, Eva Del Hoyo-Barbolla, Anne Demoisy, Anna Giovanetti, Walter Hannak, James Houghton, David Morton, François Moutou , Jane Lamprill, Antony Lebeau, David
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