Data Privacy Standards & Escalating Spyware Threats

Privacy / Security

News.com released two articles within a few hours of each other that focus on the lack of American data privacy standards and the rising threat of spyware. The first article discusses how American companies exchange subscriber and customer lists with next to no public complaint while the second article discusses how data may be leaking from computers via more sophisticated methods.

According to one of the stories, over 40 million credit cards have been exposed. It’s difficult to know the exact relation between America’s lack of privacy standards and the rise in spyware, though the correlation seems to be more than a coincidence…

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