From tracking al-Qaeda to tracking the wayward spouse
(Washington Post , Apr 03, 2012)
By Dana Milbank - The Washington Post You can find just about anything at the annual homeland security expo: X-ray machines, infrared cameras, a police cruiser with heat-sensing capability, a hovering “gyroplane” — and a GPS device that can spy on your spouse.
Forget mobile-device strategy: Here's a better way.
(Federal Computer Week , Apr 03, 2012)
By Alice Lipowicz - deral agencies should not be planning for mobile device management, but rather mobile data management, advised speakers at a seminar at the FOSE government technology conference on April 3.
Mobile Payment Business Nothing Without Secure Identity
(Seeking Alpha , Apr 03, 2012)
By Dana Blankenhorn - So we hear that Google (GOOG) has bought TxVia while its Google Wallet leadership has migrated to Square.
Study: Geolocation Apps Draw Users, Despite Privacy Concerns
(PC World , Apr 03, 2012)
By Cameron Scott - Nearly 60 percent of smartphone users employ apps that access their location data despite having concerns about risks to their privacy and even personal safety, according to a survey conducted by ISACA, a nonprofit group that focuses on risk and security management.
Activists Allege Facebook Dragging Its Feet on Privacy Changes
(PC World , Apr 04, 2012)
By Jeremy Kirk - Privacy activists are alleging Facebook hasn't met a deadline set by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to make changes to its privacy controls.
Why Google Isn't the Privacy Villain (This Time)
(Bloomberg Businessweek , Apr 03, 2012)
By Derrick Harris - Google has been on the receiving end of some particularly egregious complaints lately, most of them stemming from its revised privacy policy that went into place on March 1. Many of these efforts to call Google to the carpet, however, seem like little more than attempts to make a quick payday with a legal settlement or to make political hay by summoning the privacy villain du jour on behalf of voters.
Palm readers may ID kids
(News-Press.com, Apr 03, 2012)
By Chris Umpierre - Lee County students might one day pay for their school lunches by flashing their palms. The district’s food department told the school board Tuesday that it wants to test a voluntary palm reader scanning system in several school cafeterias
D--The Biometrics Identity and Management Agency's Identity and Identity-Enabling Authentication Study
(Fed Biz Opps , Apr 03, 2012)
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