Tag Archives: Responsibility

Look through your target customer’s eyes


Every day, firms touch intimate parts of our lives, yet fail to engage as partners while harvesting our private bits and bytes. Cell phones track our location. Utilities put smart meters on our homes, but do not show me the … Continue reading

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Weasel Words


This story about an Aaron’s Rentals franchise practice of installing software that enables the seller of rent-to-own computers to disable or track its computers broke a few days ago. The video above provides a summary, if you missed the story. … Continue reading

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Knowledge = Money. How About Value?


This post is one in a series on Privacy & Security, and covers some of the intersections of these domains for those who are not practitioners with in-depth understanding of the associated disciplines. In my post on Privacy & The Economy, I outlined some of … Continue reading

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Privacy Is A Constitutional Right. Right?


Many of us here in the United States believe our personal privacy is a Constitutional right. In fact, the word Privacy was not included in the US Constitution or in the Bill of Rights as originally passed. The concept of privacy, … Continue reading

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