Privacy B Log

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/11/local/la-me-ucla-privacy-20100611

This tells about how a UCLA hospital was fined over privacy breaches containing MJ's records. State health regulators fined the hospital almost 100 thousand dollars. Privacy is defined as The quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others. This applies to the organizational policies and standards because unauthorized employees were able to access Michael Jacksons medical records. The drawback of the employees being able to acess all the records are that this can happen, which is that people can find out and the hospital can be fined.

http://gawker.com/5548496/facebooks-new-privacy-controls-the-good-and-the-shameful

Also, pertaining to the new changes to the facebook privacy system, there are pros and cons. The good was that the controls were consolidated and people were able to turn off sharing to 3rd party companies, But the bad is that facebook already took away privacies, and now they are not giving them back automatically. This refers to the managing of data because facebook shared peoples information with 3rd parties for a while until this happened, which was not good.

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs7-work.htm

This website is about monitoring at work, which pertains to the ability to monitor users (surveillance); concerns of people regarding monitoring. People are concerned that the company can monitor all their phone conversations as well as computer and video monitoring in the workplace. With this, virtually all privacy would be taken away when somebody is at work. Employers are able to record phone calls as well as get the records of the numbers that somebody has called or received calls from. Voicemails can be monitored and are not private as well as them being able to see your text messages. Video monitoring is also allowed. There are very few laws that protect peoples privacy in the workplace, and with all these things listed above being perfectly legal and also being done, there is virtually no privacy in the workplace.

News Stories

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html

This article shows how privacy online is virtually nonexistant because they were able to identify 1/3 of the users using their facebook or twitter, and netflix used it as well.

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2010/May/02/Apparent-network-failure-shuts-out-potential-Derby-bettors.aspx

This shows network failure which is under the category of security. Because of the network failure the people who were going to bet on the Derby were not able to and were shut out. It pertains to the greater dependance on IT because the betting could not take place if the network was down, as well as showing the implications of network failure.

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/expect_new_evolving_computer_v.html

This link shows about types of intrusion and issues related to viruses. Mcafee is talking about new evolving computer viruses that are able to get through security and to watch out for. Social networks will be used as the vehicle for the the viruses. Using peoples facebooks makes them more open.