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Are you a Data Privacy Hypocrite?

June 18, 2015

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Turns out, most of us are. We want to keep our data private, but without even knowing it, it’s being tracked behind our backs. Here’s the deal… we have a huge hypocrisy with data privacy and/or a complete ignorance of the amount of personal data being collected. I think everyone agrees the theft of personal information from Anthem Healthcare, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the IRS is a horrible crime. Having a business or government agency lose that information do to mal-intent is a concern we all share as individuals and as a country. As technology users, we choose what we share on Facebook, Tinder, and LinkedIn. We educate ourselves and are aware of what is shared automatically and what we intentionally post. Now, the younger generation is more inclined to share everything while the rest are deeply concerned with what is available about us, for hackers to steal. Now here is the hypocrisy – if you love your iPhone, Android Device, and/or a fan very popular apps from Uber to Facebook, you might be a data privacy hypocrite and not even know it. You’re letting tons of privacy leak out and no one bothered to tell you. Check out this serious of nested shot settings from an iPhone with iOS 8 (Android is similar): iPhoneSettings1iPhoneSettings2 Layered 6 menus deep, Apple iOS 8 is tracking all of your locations, and even displays on a map, the most recent locations you have visited. Seems kind of scary, huh? Did you know these settings are on by default, and as an end user, you accepted them as a part of the large license agreement when you powered on your phone for the first time? I certainly did not. Luckily, these can easily be turned off flipping the switch for “Frequent Locations” to off. Now here is the problem. We all (for the most part) want to maintain our data privacy. But, how can we possibly when data like this is being collected, oh so cleverly nested pages down in the device that the average user has no idea what they are, how to turn them off, or that they are even present in the first place? Hence the hypocrisy, or possibly, the ignorance. I think most people are just unaware that companies and technology are tracking this much information. When they find out, they will turn it off. Personally, I am hypocrite. I am fearful of all the personal information that is out there and believe in strict data privacy. But, I really do love having this technology and the benefits it provides. For example, after the Rolling Stones concert in Orlando last weekend, it took only 9 minutes for an Uber driver to find all 5 of us and get us home after midnight. For that convenience, I will leave my Location Services on. I am not fearful someone will find me in the wrong place, I have done nothing wrong, so why do I have to worry if all this information is collected. Right? Unfortunately, there are some very distorted individuals in the world. There are a dozen ways to the moon that this information could be harmful if collected in bulk or in targeting a single individual or family. Everything from robbing my house when a thief knows I am out of town to potentially kidnapping high valued targets. The data may be convenient when used the correct way, but could be disastrous if abused. This is why at least I live in a world with hypocrisy for data privacy. If nothing else, we should all be aware that this type of problem is really out there. I can only hope that devices like these learn the value of role based access and least privilege technology to properly safe guard personal information. Right now, outside of parental controls, everyone is admin and the data is just hanging out there for any hacker to get a hold of. Luckily traditional computing devices like workstations and servers due have these controls and can protect the data, application, asset, and user at multiple levels. BeyondTrust has a full offering of Privileged Account Management solutions that can help any organization with managing least privilege.
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Morey J. Haber, Chief Security Officer, BeyondTrust

Morey J. Haber is the Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. He has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and has authored three books: Privileged Attack Vectors, Asset Attack Vectors, and Identity Attack Vectors. He is a founding member of the industry group Transparency in Cyber, and in 2020 was elected to the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) Executive Advisory Board. Morey currently oversees BeyondTrust security and governance for corporate and cloud based solutions and regularly consults for global periodicals and media. He originally joined BeyondTrust in 2012 as a part of the eEye Digital Security acquisition where he served as a Product Owner and Solutions Engineer since 2004. Prior to eEye, he was Beta Development Manager for Computer Associates, Inc. He began his career as Reliability and Maintainability Engineer for a government contractor building flight and training simulators. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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