privacy

Google’s Privacy Promises

February 9, 2010

Google explains why it wants your data, how it protects your data, and what it does to make sure you can get your data out of Google when you want to:

Someone should tell Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Google Renews Its Privacy Vows | TechCrunch

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There are plenty of posts about how Facebook can be part of your social media campaign. But that does mean you necessarily want everything on Facebook to be available to everyone. Take five minutes and make sure your Facebook privacy settings are right for you.

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Emailing clients at work: privilege trumps employer policy

July 21, 2009

A few months ago, I posted a warning to lawyers about emailing clients at work. My concern was based in large part on a NJ district court decision that found an employee had waived the attorney-client privilege for emails that she sent to her attorney while using her work computer. Although the emails had been [...]

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TrueCrypt 5.0 released with major new features, Linux GUI

February 6, 2008

My favorite encryption software, TrueCrypt, released a major update today. There are two major new features:

TrueCrypt now allows encryption of the entire system partition in Windows. TrueCrypt has enabled encryption of non-system partitions before, but this features allows you to encrypt your entire drive.
The long-awaited graphical interface for GNU/Linux!

TrueCrypt is a free and open-source software [...]

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Online marketing 101: privacy and technical know-how (part 1 of 3)

February 5, 2008

By now, most attorneys are at least thinking about marketing their practice online, if not doing it in some fashion already. But “online marketing” is a concept so vague it is completely unhelpful. Online marketing encompasses everything from websites to social networking sites to chat rooms. Much online marketing is similar to offline marketing, but [...]

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A valuable reminder—keep your files secure

July 3, 2007

My office was burglarized over the weekend, a valuable reminder of the need to backup and secure your files, both paper and digital.
All the jerks stole was a few rolls of stamps and my video camera. Expensive for me, to be sure, but nothing particularly disturbing. They didn’t touch my external hard drive that I [...]

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Laptop with personal data of all 64,000 Ohio State employees stolen

June 16, 2007

This is why you need to encrypt your client files.
If the data on that hard drive was encrypted, rather than sitting out there for anyone to see, the headline might have been entirely different. All the thief would be able to see would be a file, partition, or drive full of gobbledygook (that’s a technical [...]

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Wiping hard drives clean as a whistle

May 3, 2007

We recently mentioned law office computer encryption, but what do you do when it comes time to throw out a hard drive? Wipe it clean. Why go to the trouble? The same reason you should encrypt client data. As a lawyer, your computer is an identity thief’s dream. When you toss a hard drive with [...]

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