Kroll Fraud Solutions Blog – A Dialogue on Data Security

Young adults often make poor choices when it comes to social networking; so, many people argue that the younger generation simply doesn’t care about their own privacy. However, a recent survey refutes that argument – entitled How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?, it reveals little evidence that young adults’ attitudes toward privacy are fundamentally different from those of older adults. What the data did show, however, was that a higher proportion of 18-24 year olds believe (incorrectly) that information privacy laws protect their data both online and offline than do other age groups.

Twitter posts, a.k.a “tweets,” seem to have reached a new level of importance or, at least, notoriety, in the last week when the Library of Congress announced that Twitter will share all public tweets since the site’s inception with the Library and Google announced they are making a certain amount of tweets searchable.

Matt Raymond, Library of Congress blogger, said in his post of April 14, “. . . it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data. . .”

Say farewell to the old year with a look at four of the top 2009 events that our experts believe have changed the face of data security for businesses going forward…

• Heartland Payment Systems breach – Termed by some as “the world’s biggest data breach to date”, hundreds of millions of payment cards were compromised. Heartland leadership was visible and vocal throughout the year, championing end-to-end encryption and sharing lessons learned from this incident for which the company created an $82.9 Million reserve.