MSNBC reports that criminals posing as legitimate businesses have accessed critical personal data stored by ChoicePoint. ChoicePoint collects information from public records (they have contracts with at least 35 federal agencies to share data with them) and then combines it…
Day: February 14, 2005
‘Google Hacking’ Digs Up Sensitive Material
(via Search Engine Lowdown)This Reuters story looks at the growing problem of sensitive data being readily available via a simple Google search:Hackers have found a handy tool to take control of bank accounts, tap into corporate computer networks and dig…
“Search is the new center of gravity”
(via John Battelle)Roger McNamee, of The New Normal, writes an insightful piece on Google's Desktop Search. He opens:There are very few pieces of technology whose time is longer gone than the hierarchical file system underlying Windows. Finding things on a…
Search Warrants in the Era of Digital Evidence
GW Law professor Orin Kerr has posted a draft of his new (and important) paper "Search Warrants in an Era of Digital Evidence." Here is the abstract:This Article contends that the legal rules regulating the search warrant process must be…
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