Depending upon your views on the subject of privacy and/or your dependency of online advertising as a revenue source for your organization, you will find a recent article by Susan Hall published in IT Business Edge an interesting read.

Click here to read Susan Hall’s article.

Information security and individual privacy can and often are affected by those small pieces of browser software that tracks and authenticates web viewing activities by users …e.g. “cookies”.

As you can imagine, much debate goes on over this topic and how the goverment will take a policy position regarding these “cookies”.

Typically these “cookies” and how they affect privacy and information security are thought of relevant to individuals.  However, they are also relevant to the activities conducted by individuals working in business environment and have the potential to violate individual privacy rights in any case.

Eric Chabrow, in his blog “The Public Eye” does a good job keeping tabs on our federal government’s efforts to protect its citizen’s privacy — particularly when applied to writing and enforcing a “federal cookie policy”.

Click here to read more about this often overlooked element of risk to privacy.

The dark side of social networking activity on the internet continues to generate much debate over maintaining information security levels, protection of individual rights of privacy, and in general, elements of compliance and risk management all rolled up into one controversial topic.

This article written by David F. Carr, a writer for the Government Computer News magazine, adds a unique perspective to that debate.  The focus of this article deals with not so much the twittering away of bits of information, as much, as trying to understand the risks involved with someone (i.e. an adversary) who puts those pieces of random information together and can potentially gain knowledge which can truly become a matter of national security.

Click here to read more about the Department of Defense’s perspective on this topic.