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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Personal Privacy</title> <link>http://www.GuardMyCreditFile.org</link> <description>News and information on matters impacting personal privacy</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:45:34 GMT</lastBuildDate> <generator>ListGarden Program 1.02</generator> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><copyright>Copyright by GuardMyCreditFile.org</copyright><language>en-us</language><webMaster>jmalmber@pacbell.net</webMaster> <item> <title>Privacy Concerns with Google Desktop Search </title> <link>http://financialprivacy.blogspot.com/2006/02/privacy-concerns-with-google-desktop.html</link> <description>February 17, 2006 – Google has just released the latest version of its desktop search software, and it some new features. One of them is the ability to share documents across multiple computers. While some may find this feature convenient, it may users to privacy intrusions or even worse.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:46:34 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>How Much Do You Spend at Victoria’s Secret? The IRS Wants to Know!</title> <link>http://financialprivacy.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-much-do-you-spend-at-victorias.html</link> <description>February 15, 2006 – If you think you don’t have much in the way of financial privacy right now, you are correct. Banks can disclose your information to their affiliate companies without your permission (You can thank Congress for that). Database companies gather, store and resell your information (including your Social Security Number) to the highest bidder. But if you think financial privacy is lacking already, the Bush Administration is trying to hard to make the situation even worse. If they get their way, copies of your credit card bills and your ATM card purchases will be sent straight to the IRS. So much for due process!</description> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:45:40 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>February 14, 2006 – ACCESS has been concerned for months that the State Department’s plan to include RFID chips in passports has not been well thought out. The original plan would have placed an RFID chip in every passport which would have contained unencrypted data about the passport holder. After a storm of protest, the State Department revised the standard to include some encryption. Now, a Dutch television news program has along and broken that encryption in less than two hours. The ramifications of this to passport holders are anything but positive.</title> <link>http://financialprivacy.blogspot.com/2006/02/rfid-chips-in-passports-proven-to-be.html</link> <description>February 14, 2006 – ACCESS has been concerned for months that the State Department’s plan to include RFID chips in passports has not been well thought out. The original plan would have placed an RFID chip in every passport which would have contained unencrypted data about the passport holder. After a storm of protest, the State Department revised the standard to include some encryption. Now, a Dutch television news program has along and broken that encryption in less than two hours. The ramifications of this to passport holders are anything but positive.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:27:06 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Secure Flight Dies Again</title> <link>http://financialprivacy.blogspot.com/2006/02/secure-flight-dies-again.html</link> <description>February 10, 2006 – Yesterday, the Transportation Security Administration suspended work on Secure Flight; the agencies long awaited and very expensive airline passenger screening system. Development work on the system has been plagued with trouble for the past four years. And the system has faced stiff opposition from consumers concerned about privacy. 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The worm will begin destroying a variety of files on the computers that it resides on, including Adobe PDF files, Microsoft Word documents, and other files created in Microsoft Office.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:04:18 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Patriot Act Hits another Roadblock Due to Privacy Issues</title> <link>http://financialprivacy.blogspot.com/2006/01/patriot-act-hits-another-roadblock-due.html</link> <description>January 25, 2006 – Last month, just prior to the Congressional holiday recess, renewal efforts for the Patriot Act ground to a halt. The law, which gives the federal government sweeping search and seizure powers that many believe to be unconstitutional, had sixteen very controversial clauses that were due to expire at the beginning of this year. The Bush Administration had been pushing Congress to renew the law in its entirety, and to make it permanent. But when four Republican senators (a so-called “gang of four”) joined with democrats to demand greater protections for individual privacy, they were able to launch a filibuster to prevent a long term renewal of the law. Instead, the Senate and House of Representatives were forced into a compromise that renewed the law until February 3, 2006.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:19:08 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Google Defies Government on Privacy Issues</title> <link>http://financialprivacy.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-defies-government-on-privacy.html</link> <description>January 20, 2006 – Google, the 800 pound gorilla of search engines, is defying a subpoena by the justice department. The government is demanding that the company turn over one full week of user search data. 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The law had allowed judges to seal financial records of parties involved in a divorce for any reason. </description> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:01:22 GMT</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Illinois Poised to Become First State to Ban Sale of Phone Records </title> <link>http://www.guardmycreditfile.org/index.php/content/view/541/76/</link> <description>January 9, 2006 - On Friday, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich announced that he wants to ban the unauthorized sale of phone records within his state. The practice, know in the industry as “pretexting”, occurs when someone pretending to be the phone company’s customer calls the phone company and gains access to all of the call information available for the actual customer. Surprisingly, no state currently outlaws this practice. 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