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Can CLOUD ensure the privacy of my child's information?

Yes. Even the most secure current data systems suffer a basic flaw. Who you are is in the same database as the rest of your information. Rather than promising privacy, CLOUD completely re-architects the relationship between your child and their data. When it isn't in the same place, privacy is built-in, not promised.

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Is Privacy a Uniquely Facebook Issue?

Dec 15

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Standards | No Comments

The past few days have seen a renewal of the conversation about privacy on Facebook. Articles of note include Privacy Advocates Slam Facebook Change and How Facebook is Making Friending Obsolete.

Protecting privacy isn’t a challenge unique to Facebook. It was around long before the invention of HTML and Web sites 15 years ago, but those developments made the challenge acute. The pre-Web Internet was about connecting people directly, but the Web caused a reversion to publishing and broadcasting models. The Web and HTML have contributed to the growth of the Internet, but their main side effect has been to force us into silos to connect with each other. Facebook, with 350 million users, is one impressive silo, but more than 1.7 billion Internet users are spread among millions of other silos.

So, what does this mean for privacy? Read the rest of this entry »

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Express Scripts data breach: Isolated Incident or Endemic Problem?

Oct 19

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Health | 2 Comments

Express Scripts data breach may have hit 700,000 victims

SC Magazine | Chuck Miller | October 1, 2009

Last year’s data breach of St. Louis-based Express Scripts may be more serious than initially believed.

In November 2008, the major pharmacy benefit management firm said it received an anonymous letter that included the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, prescription information of 75 members. The writer or writers threatened to release millions of more records if the business failed to pay an unspecified sum of money.

In the last two months, based on new information from the extortionists, Express Scripts began notifying more than 700,000 victims of their personal information may have been compromised.

CLOUD Take: It is interesting that a data breach that affected 700,000 people is perceived as a breach of Express Scripts.  Although the point of loss may have been systems at Express Scripts, there were 700,000 breaches, not one. Read the rest of this entry »

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Wired: Is Online Privacy a Generational Issue?

Oct 3

Posted by Gary in CLOUD Health | No Comments

“It seems like every time I talk to people about privacy, there’s a feeling that younger users of online tools simply don’t care about the issue. Often, I am asked why privacy advocates like CDT push government and industry to protect privacy more robustly- when ‘no one cares’? In short, people seem to be asserting that digital natives like myself do not value privacy online. While this point is oft repeated, I think that this argument is flawed, and does not address the subtleties of privacy in the cloud, social networks, and other new online technologies. Simply put, these technologies are giving digital natives (really, all users) greater control over their information – and we use it.”

CLOUD Take: CLOUD, Inc. agrees with Heather West, policy analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology, and writer of this guest post at Geek Dad.  The time for greater control of our information has arrived, and the locus of that control should not be at the website but instead at the user, the individual.

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