ChadKing.com Archives: August 2004
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27 August 2004
California Strikes Again
A California state bill covering electronic tracking of employees is ready to be signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. The bill requires that employees receive a one-time written notice if the employer intends to read the employees’ e-mail, track employees’ Internet use, or use electronic monitoring devices (such as a GPS device) to track employees. Governor [...]
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26 August 2004
RNC Email Blunder
The Republican National Convention is likely wishing it could recall a message it sent yesterday to hundreds of volunteers. The email inadvertently included an attachment that contains, among other things, the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, race and other personal information of the volunteers. The incident follows on the heels of a recent data leak [...]
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24 August 2004
Spent Youth
We’ve all heard stories about teenagers “borrowing” $10 from mom’s purse without asking. But here’s a new twist — parents “borrowing” the identities of their children for credit purposes. According to Linda Foley of the Identity Theft Resource Center, it’s a growing problem.
And it’s not just teenagers that are having identities stolen. [...]
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24 August 2004
Metadata Exposed
Did you know that a typical Word document contains twenty-five different types of hidden metadata? A new website called Metadatarisk.org aims to take the confusion out of these digital “fingerprints” that attach to a Word document each time it is saved.
The site offers, among other things, a downloadable application to search documents for metadata [...]
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23 August 2004
Open Door Policy
In an attempt to reduce drugs and violence in its restrooms, at least one middle school has taken the radical step of eliminating doors on the stalls in the boys restroom. Not surprisingly, the move has been met with criticism from parents. Some parents have even picked up their kids during the school day so [...]
