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1/8/2020 0 Comments

Privacy Prompt 1: Track Your Accounts

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Privacy and security are closely related. You know that having strong passwords is important to good privacy. Click here to see why passwords are so important. This week's prompt is pretty simple:

Create a list of every high-risk website, account, or app with which you have an account that requires a password. It can be on paper, a Word doc, Excel, wherever. If you want to be super private, make a Word doc and password protect it. I have provided a simple Excel spreadsheet to start you out (which you can also password protect).


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1/2/2020 0 Comments

Passwords: Links & Articles

Here are some interesting and helpful links & articles about passwords:
  • Check out my post on Passwords & Dual-Factor Authentication


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1/1/2020 0 Comments

Passwords & Dual-Factor Authentication

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By now, you are probably well aware of the need to password protect your accounts and devices. Most now require password protection, though it wasn’t always that way. However, despite the constant admonition to use a “strong” password and to follow certain guidelines, many people still fail to do so.

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1/1/2020 0 Comments

Protect Yourself Checklist

I am often asked "How can I protect my privacy?" I teach a whole class on this at UVM. This is the comprehensive list of all the ways you could protect your privacy. Some of these might require more information, and I will be adding additional resources in the days to come.

How you protect your privacy is up to you, and you might not want to do all of these things. Items in bold are things that everyone should do, the others depend on how far you want to go with your privacy.
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4/8/2019 0 Comments

Regulators Should Rethink 'Reasonable Data Security'

This article originally appeared in Law360.

Your data is valuable — in the wrong hands it exposes you to identity theft, fraud and privacy violations. If a business collects your data, they are expected to prevent that data from being lost, stolen or wrongfully accessed. We call this legal requirement “reasonable data security.”
 
This might all seem obvious, but we must remind ourselves of first principles as we worry about data breaches, vendors that sell insecure software, and vendors that are entrusted with sensitive employee, customer or student data. It can be easy to get lost in the weeds, but the ultimate goal of the regulators is not to police data security — it is to protect consumers.

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    Ryan Kriger is an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Vermont. He writes on privacy and data security and  teaches about privacy, consumer protection and policy at the University of Vermont.

    These materials are my personal work product developed as a university lecturer and do not reflect the policies or priorities of the Vermont Attorney General. These materials do not constitute legal advice.

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