Doing the newspaper wrap
Last Sunday, the Boston Globe wrapped their newspaper bundles in some unusual scrap paper--the credit card and bank numbers of 1/4 million of their subscribers.
The paper is owned by the New York Times.
How could they do this you ask? Simple. They blame the computer.
It's always the computer, isn't it? It's the Mikey of the silicon generation. The perpetual fall guy.
We need an FTC-levied set of fines on wide-scale privacy violations. Imagine what would have happened with a say, $10 per name fine? $2.5 million.
What should they do with the money?
Give it to me. Failing that, use it to fund privacy task forces.
Posted on February 02, 2006
