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 Reuters
September 15, 2006
Amid privacy backlash, Web publishers turn inward
"Technological
changes and personal privacy have been at odds ever since modern notions
of privacy emerged more than a century ago."
[Read more]
 BusinessWeek
Online
September 5, 2006
Seek and Ye Shall Be Found
"Search
data stored by the likes of Google and AOL is a privacy timebomb.
It's time for these Net giants to hit the delete key."
[Read more]
 Washington Post
August 8, 2006
AOL Takes Down Site With Users' Search Data
"AOL issued an apology yesterday for posting on a public Web
site 20 million keyword searches conducted by hundreds of thousands of
its subscribers from March to May. But the company's admission that it
made a mistake did little to quell a barrage of criticism from bloggers
and privacy advocates who questioned the company's security practices
and said the data breach raised the risk of identity theft."
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BusinessWeek
Online
July 24, 2006
The
Privacy Pirates
"Corporate
policies on the collection and management of personal data do precious
little to protect your privacy."
[Read more]
BusinessWeek
Online
May 30, 2006
The DVD War Against Consumers
"Makers
of the new DVD players are going too far in copyright protection
efforts, but consumers needn't take it lying down."
[Read more]
BusinessWeek
Online
March 16, 2006
Guarding Google's Data Banks
"The
more info the company accumulates, the more unwanted legal attention it
will draw. What's more, its brand could suffer damage as well."
[Read more]
 Network
World
February 13, 2006
How do the feds tap phone lines?
"Senate hearings in Washington last week focused on whether the
National Security Agency needs a warrant before it conducts domestic
surveillance, but from a technology perspective, the lawful wiretap
process is pretty straightforward."
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more]
 San Francisco
Chronicle
January 20, 2006
Google says no to data demand.
"Watch what you search
for on the Internet. It could come back to haunt you. That point was hammered home in recent court
filings by the federal government demanding that the Internet's major search engines turn over vast
amounts of data about what people have searched for.."
[Read more]
BusinessWeek
Online
October 25, 2005
Share the Knowledge, Expand the Wealth
"Copyright
laws protect the lucky and well-connected few at the expense of
innovation and opportunity. For all our sakes,
this needs to change."
[Read more]
BusinessWeek
Online
July 5, 2005
Digital Deeds Never Die
"The
more info the company accumulates, the more unwanted legal attention it
will draw. What's more, its brand could suffer damage as well."
[Read more]
BusinessWeek
Online
June 16, 2005
Adding Privacy to the Constitution
"Legislation
can't keep up with the myriad ways technology allows our personal info
to be misused. Only an amendment can protect Americans."
[Read more]
 The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
April 26, 2004
Experts worry over critical power systems
"When
you consider the damage caused by an animal with a brain the size of a
pebble, it puts in perspective what could happen if computer scientists
working for a terrorist network put their energies into disrupting vital
networks in America."
[Read
more]
 The
Washington Times
April 7, 2004
'Inside the Beltway' column - Digital Watergate
"It's
only a matter of time until one campaign digitally "invades" the other,
says Mr. Holtzman, causing a "digital Watergate" scandal for the 21st
century."
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more]
 InfoWorld
March 19, 2004
Candidates Unclear on Tech Issues
In an interview with Staff Writer Grant Gross,
Holtzman shares his view on the outsourcing debate and the use of
technology in the 2004 Presidential Campaign.
[Read
more]
 Selling
without Selling Out
March 2004
by David Holtzman
"Is there ever an ethical use for spam?"
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Campaign
Creep
February 2004
by David Holtzman
"Politics has always been a contact
sport, but as this season's crop of presidential candidates takes to the
Internet, they may get tackled by the technology"
[
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Security
at the Four Corners
January 2004
by David Holtzman
"When security is a global undertaking,
CSOs are subject to the murky legal requirements of multiple
jurisdictions at once"
[
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The
Renaissance of the CSO
December 2003
by David Holtzman
"The mundane chore of security by
interdiction is morphing into the more difficult task of security by
imagination"
[
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Creeping
Determinism
November 2003
by David Holtzman
"Security departments that rely too
heavily on their outsourcer to troubleshoot problems could be heading
for disaster"
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Legal
is from Mars, Security is from Venus
October 2003
by David Holtzman
"The security staff gets frustrated by
the perceived pettiness of attorneys, and everyday security activities
make messes that lawyers have to clean up."
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Wi-FIght
It?
September 2003
by David Holtzman
"...like it or not, remote access
technologies are infiltrating the enterprise and will change the
direction of corporate security"
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The
Highs and Lows of the CSO
August 2003
by David Holtzman
"...of all the possible security
executive jobs out there, none is probably as challenging as the
public-sector job"
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If you can't stand the heat, don't call 'em
July 2003
by David Holtzman
"There will come a day when you get
tagged by a hacker. But once you figure out how it happened and close
the hole, should you call the cops?"
[
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Diversity
Training
June 2003
by David Holtzman
"CSOs should make an effort to slow down
the rate of standardization in the enterprise. Hedge your bets—the
best containment strategy to avoid catastrophic failure is
diversification."
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Read more
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Will
Hack for Food
May 2003
by David Holtzman
"As it becomes harder for hackers to earn a
good living and long-term employment hopes fade, less traditional
revenue opportunities such as corporate espionage or even sabotage may
look more tempting."
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Mistrust
Never Sleeps
April 2003
by David Holtzman
"A healthy suspicion of every business partner
can pay dividends for the CSO"
"Safety has become a commodity as tangible
as duct tape or gas masks; it is the negative space left behind when
fear is erased. Security is different. It lasts longer. And it's not
about finding a feel-good solution. Security is about trust"
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Merger Mambo
March 2003
by David Holtzman
"There are three reasons why these deals happen. Either you're going to dismantle the company for its parts, assimilate it as a profit and loss center, or augment your organization by adding the company as a subsidiary."
[ Read more ]
Free Parking
February 2003
by David Holtzman
The Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002 (CSEA) has changed how security professionals handle privacy.
[ Read more ]
 Homeland Security and You
January 2003
by David Holtzman
Unrestricted email monitoring may turn out to be the long-awaited killer app for personal encryption.
[ Read more ]
Home Is Where The Hard Drive Is
January 2003
by David Holtzman
Designing an infrastructure to be compatible with many legal environments can ward off privacy headaches. "While industrial age governmental policy freezes like a 10-point buck in headlights, the legal prey of tomorrow is only a distant blur."
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Is the Sky Really Falling?
December 2002
by David Holtzman
Why Chicken Little tactics are not career enhancing for Security professionals. "The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced."
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 IT to Fight Terrorism: Will it work, or will it backfire?
November 25, 2002
"...One $70,000 human agent at the CIA to penetrate al-Qaeda would be more effective than $1 billion of IT."
"Companies, the government and individuals are pretty much going to know whatever they want to know about you. The question is, What are they going to do with it? The idea that you can do anything and nobody knows it is really anonymity, and that's dead."
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Washington Post
November 21, 2002
What goes on in the new boardroom
"A 'clean' deal for a VC isn't necessarily the right thing for the entrepreneur," says Holtzman. "It's not that easy to generalize this problem." He says the best thing for new entrepreneurs creating boards is to find one or two trusted mentors to help.
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Personal privacy takes alarming hit
November 20, 2002
Holtzman says that recent court rulings in conjunctions with the Homeland Security act will give the government more information about private citizens to analyze. "We're institutionalizing a loss of privacy..."
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Charting Ethical Waters
November 2002
by David Holtzman
Security Policies based on ethics are easier to understand and interpret then ones based on legal arbitrage.
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The Next Chapter: Predictions on the future of data storage
October 2002
"..Interpreting stored data will be the biggest law enforcement problem over the next 10 years. Expect to see almost any common artifact or construction material potentially storing data.."
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Homeland defense: A modest proposal
October 2002
by David Holtzman
A satirical piece explaining how a homeland defense information system would be built and intimating that the correct choice lies in the range in the middle and not at the two extremes.
[ Read more ]
Domesticating the Database
October 2002
by David Holtzman
Holtzman discusses how to protect enterprise data and explains why the people are always the weakest link in the security chain.
[ Read more ]
Who's Responsible for Being Responsible?
September 2002
by David Holtzman
This first issue of Holtzman's monthly law, ethics and privacy column talks about why Boards of Directors should be held accountable for privacy and security issues and suggests what they should do about it.
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 ZDNet -- Identity theft--get used to it
August 2002
by David Holtzman
"...This is the dirty secret of CRM--that it dehumanizes the customers and replaces them with numbers".
[ Read more ]
Washington Post
August 12, 2002
Post Series: After The Boom
Holtzman worries that the economic crash and high-level scandal could stifle innovation and discourage people from starting companies.
"...We just created a lost generation of entrepreneurs."
[ Read more ]
C|NET
July 31, 2002
Digital Privacy: A Curmudgeon's Guide
Our country has a murky consensus of what privacy is. The homeland defense debate has muddied the waters even further.
[ Read more ]
 New York Times
July 25, 2002
Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
David Holtzman, editor in chief of GlobalPOV, a privacy Web site, said that the notion of privacy was "undergoing a generational shift.
[Read more]
 CNN Headline News
June 21
Holtzman discusses some of the personal privacy considerations brought up in Spielberg's Minority Report.
 Darwin
April 18, 2002
Five Thoughts About...Privacy
It takes time to build up a critical mass of consumer awareness of the issues so that the privacy zealots don't stick out like curmudgeons...
[Read more]
InfoWorld
April 5, 2002
Time to Think Small
In an interview with Editor in Chief Michael Vizard, Holtzman shares his view on why nanotechnology is going to be the next big thing...
[Read more]
 Business Week
April 2002
How Fair Is Fair Isaac?
The secrecy surrounding the company's proprietary credit-scoring system is sparking a firestorm of criticism -- and legislative action...
[Read more]
 Silicon Valley Business Ink
March 15, 2002
Internet Users Wary of Providing Information
Online retailers need to do more to make customers comfortable with giving out personal and financial data...
[Read more]
C|NET
February 27, 2002
Dumpster-Diving the Global Village
Media coverage of privacy has become boring and predictable, with most of the debate focusing on corporate uses and abuses of customer information.
In fact, the direct-marketing practice of using form-based information (like warranty registration cards) to segment customer lists into demographic, geographic or financial groups is decades old. Because of the limited nature of available consumer information in the past, that was all that was computationally feasible at the time....
[Read more]
ZDNet News
February 8, 2002
Digital ID: You Shop, They Snoop?
SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems has joined a program called Auto-ID to build wireless digital identification tags into everything from razor blades to soup cans, Chief Executive Scott McNealy said Thursday.
The technology promises efficiency for manufacturers and convenience for shoppers--but potentially also headaches for those concerned about privacy...
[Read more]
C|NET
January 30, 2002
On a Digital Privacy Crusade
Best known as the former chief technology officer of Network Solutions, the 45-year-old former cryptographic analyst with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from 500,000 domain names to more than 20 million. He watched in amazement as technology made it easier for marketers to collect and distribute vast amounts of data--everything from the value of homes and stock options to arrest records and death certificates....
[Read more]
Washington Post
January 30, 2002
Weeding In the Garden Of Good E-Mail
A group of Internet companies is starting public tests this week of a new form of commercial e-mail, one that places a special digital seal inside electronic messages in an attempt to signify they come from a "trusted sender"...
[Read more]
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