Obviously the legal Privacy situation is difficult and different everywhere around the world. Risk Management organizations do not have a common base to work from today. We also know that without dedicated Privacy knowledge available we will fail sooner or later with all the consequences going along with that.
I have published on http://ITRiskSpace.com the latest [...]

On the heels of a separate report alleging widespread failures around the tracking and managing of passports, the inspector general found that the department cannot locate roughly 18 percent of a sample of 2,500 computers in its inventory. Almost all of the unaccounted-for computers—more than 97 percent—belong to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
“The lack of [...]

An interesting technology row is quietly brewing in Australia that, if unresolved, could have repercussions elsewhere in the world.
The spat centres on the fact that IT security software from several major vendors - notably Kaspersky, Sophos and Symantec - has been found to block legal hacking attempts by the New South Wales police.
The vendors claim [...]

Those in charge of a £234m “C-Nomis” IT system for prisons made mistakes which had been evident often before in government IT projects, said the National Audit Office in a report published today.
In 2002 the Office of Government Commerce and the NAO agreed eight common causes of project failure.
The lessons were given to departments in [...]