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01 Sep · Thu 2005

What is personal information?


There's some discussion going around at the moment (some of it in the context of appropriate legislation against Identity Theft) about what constitues "personal information". I know UK and EU legislation codifies the kinds of data which count as "personally identifiable information", but it's also interesting to read David Matheson's blog entry here on the topic of "personal information" in the slightly broader sense. Warning: if the word 'epistemology' makes you feel dizzy, you might want to give it a miss.
Posted by racingsnake @ 12:56 PM GMT+00:00

"Cleaning up" after Katrina?


As the grim consequences of Hurricane Katrina continue to unfold, some estimates of the cost to repair the damage done could exceed $25bn; more than the $21bn needed after Hurricane Andrew. Ken Rijock notes that that kind of cash flow is an extremely attractive vehicle for opportunistic money-launderers, looking to shift dirty money back into the mainstream financial cycle under circumstances where anti-money-laundering (AML) monitoring may be less focussed than usual. He and others, including the very lucid Jeffrey Robinson, point out the crucial difference between law-enforcers and criminals. The former are constrained by borders, laws, budgets, ethics and the like. The latter are constrained only by the limits of their imagination.
Posted by racingsnake @ 12:27 PM GMT+00:00
 
 
 
 
 
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