Your Privacy: 59 and 75% Security
Date: Wednesday, December 18 @ 13:37:52 EST
Topic: Privacy


The New York Times (free reg. req. blah blah blah) is running a story on a recent survey conducted of 797 Chief Security Officers at various corporations. The results are rather startling: only about a quarter of those surveyed indicated that they would request a court order before divulging any customer information to law enforcement authorities. If the information requested is deemed important to national security or terrorist threats that figure jumps to 41%.

Many people give out their private information to various companies in exchange for certain services. I doubt many people realize that the benefit to the company having your information is much greater than the benefit one receives from having the service. Would this change if people knew that their privacy was not as well-protected as they usually think it is? I would also be curious to see how many of the companies that were surveyed have a clause in their privacy policy about requests from law enforcement officials.









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