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If My Data Is an Open Book, Why Can’t I Read It? Article Courtesy of: The New York Times | By NATASHA SINGER OUR mobile carriers know our locations: where our phones travel during working hours and leisure time, where they reside overnight when we sleep. Verizon Wireless even sells demographic profiles of customer groups — including ZIP codes for where they “live, work, shop and more” — to marketers. But when I called my wireless providers, Verizon and T-Mobile, last week in search of data on my comings and goings, call-center agents told me that their companies didn't share customers’ own location logs with them without a subpoena. Consolidated Edison monitors my household’s energy … [Read more...]

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Online & Offline Criminal Activities Target Vulnerable Consumer Data

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Criminals target the data merchants hold Retailers and restaurants accounted for 24% of compromised data last year, a new study says. Article Courtesy of: Paul Demery - Chief Technology Editor Retailers face numerous threats to confidential consumer data that criminals can use for online and offline criminal activities, Verizon Enterprise Solutions says in a new report compiled from dozens of international sources. The study notes that 24% of the 621 breaches—which include criminals using various hacking techniques, malicious software downloaded via e-mail and accessing networks with log-in credentials stolen from authorized network users—last year affected multi-channel retailers and … [Read more...]