“The Identity Information Protection Act of 2005 is one of several proposed pieces of legislation in 10 states that deal with emerging uses of RFID, a signaling technology that has existed for decades. Like California, other states are also grappling with the growing use of RFID technology and related privacy concerns. A South Dakota bill prohibits anyone from implanting an RFID device in a person. A Rhode Island bill bars government agencies from using RFID to track the movement or identity of an employee, student or client as a condition of obtaining a benefit or service.”
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Personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students was inadvertently posted online by Valencia College in Orlando. The school has apologized for the mistake. The information included the students’ names, addresses, dates of birth and student ID numbers but not their Social Security numbers or financial information. read more »California-based cybercrime prevention solution provider ThreatMetrix has acquired Australian-based TrustDefender, a provider of secure browsing technology designed to stop man-in-the-browser attacks and provide malware protection. read more »BadgePass and Digital Identification Solutions have integrated BadgePass’s Identity Manager credentialing software with Digital’s EDIsecure XID 8300 Retransfer Printer for single step smart card encoding and card issuance. read more »A new Morpho company under the Safran group has been launched called MorphoTrust USA. The new company, which was formed after the acquisition of three divisions and the headquarters of former biometrics developer L-1 Identity Solutions, will serve as an identity solutions provider dedicated to the U.S. market only. read more »Stratfor, a publisher of global intelligence and analysis, announced that CSID, a provider of global, enterprise-level identity protection and fraud detection technologies, has been retained to assist Stratfor customers whose financial information may have been compromised by recent cyber attacks. read more »Online identity protection provider Yubico and cloud server security provider CloudPassage have teamed up to provide authentication services for administrative network access in the cloud. read more » |
