Tag: data
ISPLA Year-End Report on 2011 Federal Legislative Issues
Investigative and Security Professionals for Legislative Action had great success at the federal level in 2011. Although a number of bills were introduced in the 112th Congress to amend federal surveillance laws, thus far, none have passed. Due to the rapid advances in technology Congress has attempted to address conflicts between technological innovation and privacy [...]
New Senate Data Security and Data Breach Bill Introduced
On July 28, Senators Tom Carper (D-DE.) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) reintroduced S. 1434, the Data Security Act of 2011, to protect consumers and businesses from identity theft and account fraud. The bill would require entities such as financial establishments, retailers, and federal agencies to safeguard sensitive information, investigate security breaches and notify consumers when [...]
Buried Deep in Data? New Search Options Can Help
It could have happened to any insurance company at any time. Joe, not his real name, claimed he was disabled after a one-car accident. No one else was involved. Who’s to say he was wrong? Joe had the paperwork. His story sounded real. But that’s when Michele Stuart got involved. She’s been a private investigator [...]
Data Recovery 101
Let’s start of by asking the question, what is data recovery? The following is taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media formats such as [...]
