Is It Impossible to Protect Your Privacy?是不可能為了保護您的隱私？
By通過 Alexandra Marks亞歷山德拉馬克 |
Individuals might treasure their personal data like Social Security and credit-card numbers, but identity thieves can buy them cheap and in bulk online.個人可能會珍惜自己的個人資料，如社會安全和信用卡號碼，但身份竊賊可以買到他們的廉價和中大量在線。 Credit-card numbers can now go for as little as 40 cents each.信用卡號碼現在可以去，少了40美分，每個。 A matching name, Social Security number, address, and date of birth cost just $2.00, according to security experts.一個匹配的姓名，社會安全號碼，地址，出生日期和成本只是2.00美元，據安全專家。
Even as the incidences of identity theft reach record highs, the government and private institutions continue to collect record amounts of personal, private data.即使發病率身份盜用達到歷史最高紀錄，政府和私人機構繼續收集記錄數額的個人，私人數據。
And despite all of the rules, regulations, and software innovations in place to ensure that information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, it does, and regularly.儘管所有的規則，規章，和軟件的創新，以確保信息不會落入壞人之手，但這，並定期。
In just the past month, State Department employees were disciplined for snooping through presidential candidates’ passport files, and hospital workers have been charged with selling the personal information of tens of thousands of patients as well as rifling through the patient records of top stars.在剛剛過去的一個月，美國國務院僱員被紀律處分窺探通過總統候選人護照的文件，和醫院的工人已被落案控以販賣的個人資料數以萬計的病人，以及膛線，通過病人的紀錄頂顆星。 And in Hollywood a private detective to the stars is accused of bribing police and telephone company officials so he could scour their confidential databases.和在好萊塢的一私家偵探向星級被控行賄警方和電話公司的官員，以便他能夠沖刷他們的機密數據庫。
Then there’s the Internal Revenue Service.然後還有內部收入服務。 A week before tax day, its inspector general warned that the computer systems that contain the private tax returns of every taxpayer in America are vulnerable to disgruntled employees and hackers.前一個星期稅天，其總檢察長警告說，電腦系統包含私人報稅，每一個納稅人在美國很容易不滿的僱員和黑客的攻擊。
The problem, say security experts, is that the world’s ability to collect data has far outstripped its ability to protect it.這個問題，說，安全專家，是世界的能力，蒐集資料，已遠遠超過了它有能力保護它。
“Lots of organizations and institutions, governmental and private both, are really good at collecting data, but don’t have the practices and technologies in place to make sure [they’re] well housed and secure,” says Jim Harper, a security expert at the libertarian CATO Institute in Washington. “大量的組織和機構，政府和私人都，真的是擅長於收集的數據，但不具備的做法和技術的到位，以確保[他們] ，以及居住環境和安全的，說： ”吉姆哈珀，一個安全專家在自由派卡托研究所在華盛頓舉行。 “That’s why people are able to dip into databases they shouldn’t dip into.” “這也就是為什麼人能夠動用數據庫，他們不應該動用” 。
So what’sa privacy-conscious person to do?因此，什麼是隱私意識的人怎麼辦？ Cut up all credit cards and use just cash?削減了所有信用卡和只使用現金？ Forgo a passport and foreign travel?放棄了護照和國外旅遊？
“The only real protection the public can have in this arena is to deny the government the information in the first place,” says Tim Sparapani, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. “唯一真正的保障市民可以在這舞台上是要否定政府的資料擺在首位，說： ”添史巴拉潘尼，資深大律師的立法在美國公民自由聯盟。 “Despite all of the bells and whistles, the government has proven itself to be miserably poor at controlling and limiting access to the information that it’s gathered about the public.” “儘管所有的貝爾公司和口哨，政府已經證明本身要收場窮人的控制和限制進入的資料，它的聚集約市民” 。
It’s not that the government doesn’t try.這並不是說政府不嘗試。 There are reams of regulations that people with access to confidential information are sworn to follow.有的大量法規，與人民接觸機密信息時宣誓就職遵循。 Agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security have their own privacy offices that spawn their own committees which study and address both the regulatory and technological ways of protecting all the information that government has in its databases.機構，如美國國土安全部有自己的隱私辦事處產卵他們自己的委員會，研究和處理雙方的監管和技術如何保護所有資料，政府已在其數據庫。
But as history has shown, there are the genuinely malicious among us, and even the most meticulous people can err.但正如歷史已經表明，有真正惡意在我們中間，即使是最細緻的人可以犯錯。 The recent dust-up over contract employees peering into the passport files of the presidential contenders was blamed on “imprudent curiosity.”最近粉塵超過合約僱員圖書館計劃的深入，護照檔案總統競爭者被指責對“輕率的好奇心” 。
Still, two workers were fired and another was disciplined.儘管如此，兩名工人被解僱，另一人紀律處分。 The inspector general of the State Department is investigating the incidents.監察長，美國國務院正在調查該事件。 It includes a thorough “review of the internal control processes and other aspects of managing the passport data,” according to a spokesman for the inspector general.它包括一個徹底的“審查內部控制流程和其他方面的管理護照數據， ”根據一名發言人表示，監察長。 That should be completed by the end of May.應完成5月底。
In the meantime, privacy experts like Mr. Harper see a “glimmer” of hope in the incident.在此同時，隱私權專家一樣， Harper先生看到一個“一線希望” ，希望在這次事件中。 First, that it was discovered, since many such incidents go unnoticed, security experts say.首先，人們發現，由於許多此類事件被忽視，安全專家說。 Second, that the State Department had digital “flags” on the files of prominent people that alerted superiors when their data were accessed by an unauthorized person.第二，國務院的數字， “國旗”上的檔案突出的人們，提醒上級時，他們的數據被訪問未經授權的人。
Harper says such “flags” should be on everyone’s files, not just those of important people, so that the government can keep an accurate record, called an “audit log” on the files.哈珀說，這種“國旗”應該對每個人的檔案，而不只是那些重要的人，使政府能夠保持準確的記錄，稱為“審核日誌”關於檔案。 “That’sa very small, but important, protection, and … it will be recognized soon enough as standard operating procedure,” he says. “這是非常小，但重要的是，保護， … …它會得到承認，盡快不夠標準作業程序， ”他說。 “If you hold personally identifiable data, then you’ll have audit logs so you can have records of who accessed it and when.” “如果你持有的個人識別的數據，那麼您將有審核記錄，讓您可以有記錄的人進入它的時候” 。
Software experts are coming up with an array of such programs that could help protect the privacy of data.軟件專家即將拿出一個數組這種程序可以幫助保護隱私的資料。 For instance, one allows a person to compare two different files — say a Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of suspected criminals and a travel agent’s list of its customers.舉例來說，一個可以讓一個人要比較兩個不同的文件-說，一個聯邦調查局的名單，犯罪嫌疑人及旅行代理商的名單，其客戶。 The program will sort the information in each and reveal data that both files have in common.該計劃將排序信息，並在每個顯示的數據，這兩個文件有共通之處。 That way either side can only see the information in the other file that matches their own.這樣，任何一方只能看到信息在其他的文件相匹配的自己。 That’s also the only data that the person or institution comparing the information can see.這也是唯一的數據，該人士或機構的資料比較，可以看到。
Other programs allow people to interact in cyberspace “pseudonomously,” in other words, using a different name.其他節目，讓人們在網絡空間的互動“ pseudonomously ， ”換言之，使用不同的名稱。 It’s similar to the way eBay and PayPal now work.它的運作方式類似於eBay和PayPal現在的工作。 But in this security-conscious world, there are drawbacks to such systems as well.但在這安全意識世界，有缺點，這樣的系統，以及。
“It would be especially hard to get established in the post-9/11 environment where there’s this idea that you have to have control of the financial system in order to control terrorism,” says Harper. “這將是難求，在成立後的環境下，有這種想法，你必須有控制的金融體系，以控制恐怖主義，說： ”哈珀。
Private security experts say the best protections in place come from companies that have a financial stake in individuals’ private data, like banks and credit-card companies.私人保安專家說，最好的保護措施到位，來自公司有金融的股份，個人的私人數據，如銀行和信用卡公司。
“They pay a lot of attention to protecting that information, not because of consumer privacy, but because banks don’t want to lose money: that’s what’s driving it, the big financial incentive,” says Avivah Litan, vice president of Gartner, a technology consulting firm in Stamford, Conn. “But with other information, like my passport file, what’s the incentive to fix my privacy? “他們付出了很多注意保護的信息，這並不是因為消費者的隱私權，而是因為銀行不想失去金錢：這是什麼的駕駛，大的經濟誘因，說： ”利坦（ Avivah ，副總統Gartner的研究，技術諮詢公司在康涅狄格州斯坦福“ ，但與其他信息一樣，我的護照文件，什麼樣的誘因，修正我的隱私權？ There isn’t one unless there’sa consumer revolution and that doesn’t look like [it’s] coming.”有沒有一，除非有消費者革命和不樣子[它的]來了“ 。
That is one of the things prompting the ACLU to continue to fight government efforts to collect even more data on individuals, including the REAL ID Act.這是其中一件事，促使美國公民自由聯盟，以繼續爭取政府的努力，以收集更多的數據，甚至對個人，包括真正的身份證的行為。 That requires states to issue standard driver’s licenses and give the federal government access to information about those licenses.這需要國家標準的問題，駕駛執照，並給予聯邦政府獲取信息的那些執照。 Some government security experts want to combine those state files with the databases that DHS already keeps on Americans’ international travel, the State Department’s passport files, the Social Security’s E-Verify database, and the FBI’s criminal records.政府的一些安全專家要結合起來，這些國家的檔案與資料庫的國土安全部已不斷對美國人的國際旅費，國務院的護照，文件，社會保障的電子驗證數據庫，和聯邦調查局的犯罪記錄。 They argue that those combined files could then be mined to ferret out terrorists.他們爭辯說，這些聯合檔案便可雷區才挖出那些恐怖分子。 But many privacy experts object, saying such information remains too vulnerable to attack.但許多專家對象的隱私，說這些資料仍然是太容易受到攻擊。
“We believe the better way to ensure security is to do actual physical security checks, like screening all the bags that go in the belly of a plane and being sure weapons don’t get on,” says Mr. Sparapani. “我們相信更好的方式來確保安全，就是要做好實際的安全檢查，如檢查所有袋即去，在腹部的飛機和被肯定的武器不上，說： ”先生，史巴拉潘尼。 “Instead we have all of these data sets that are being created and collected by the government and all of which are vulnerable to hacking and malicious attack and being stolen by identity thieves and terrorists.” “相反，我們有所有這些數據集正在形成，並收集了由政府和所有這些都是容易受到黑客和惡意攻擊和被竊取身份竊賊和恐怖分子” 。
Other security experts note that mining such databases can be very helpful in identifying fraud or other patterns of criminal behavior.其他安全專家指出，採礦等數據庫可以有很大的幫助，在查明有欺詐行為或其他形式的犯罪行為。 But they, too, are wary of the privacy implications.但他們也擔心的隱私問題。
“There really are good reasons for analysts to look at lots of phone records and call detail if you’re putting it to the right use: You’re not going to find needles in a haystack without a lot of data aggregation and data mining,” says Ms. Litan. “真的有很好的理由分析師看大量的電話記錄，並要求詳細如果您把它以正確的使用說明：您不打算在找到針頭，在大海撈針，沒有大量的數據匯總和數據挖掘， “女士說利坦。 “But we’re always going to be behind the eight ball [on privacy], there’sa ton of data on all of us out there and a lot of unauthorized abuse of it. “但我們一直要落後於8球[關於隱私] ，有噸的數據對我們所有人的存在，並且有很多未經授權的濫用。 I’m not really sure what the solution is.”我不是真的確定什麼解決的辦法是“ 。
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Massive increase in fraud crimes should make the government and banks realise that their data protection and Chip and PIN systems are diverting rather than deterring fraud crimes.大量增加的欺詐犯罪，應讓政府和銀行了解到，他們的數據保護和芯片和PIN系統分流，而非遏止欺詐犯罪活動。
This shows that fraud will continue to grow until they exploit KEY and PIN system described on website這表明，欺詐行為將繼續增長，直到他們利用的關鍵和PIN系統所描述的網站 www.xwave.co.uk which will deter BOTH identity and card fraud by making signature and PIN systems reliable and foolproof.這將阻止雙方的身份和信用卡欺詐行為，使簽名及密碼系統的可靠和萬無一失。
Fake documents have made our signature system unreliable while skimmers and pin-hole cameras etc. have made PIN system unreliable.偽造證件取得了我們的簽名系統是不可靠的，而回收船和針孔攝影機等作出了密碼系統是不可靠的。 We have option to make signatures reliable by personalising them with ID stickers and option to use Card Key Code to make PIN system reliable to make use of stolen and skimmed cards meaningless.我們有選擇，使簽名可靠的個性化，由他們與編號貼紙及選擇使用卡的密碼，使密碼系統可靠，使使用被盜和脫脂卡的意義。 By ignoring to exploit this system banks are only letting fraud crimes grow.無視利用此系統的銀行，只有讓詐騙犯罪的增長。
ID KEY system will eliminate the need for us to protect our personal and card details since fraudsters will be deterred from misusing these stolen details. ID密鑰系統將消除，我們需要保護我們的個人和信用卡詳細資料以來，騙徒會望而卻步，從濫用這些被盜的細節。
Proposed ID KEY can be treated as a reliable international ID card because it will personalise signature and PIN number to only the right individuals in any country.建議ID密鑰可以被視為一個可靠的國際身份證的，因為它將個性化的簽名和PIN號碼，只有個人的權利，在任何一個國家。
We hope that the government and banks will appreciate these details and exploit KEY and PIN system before it is too late to stop a fraud boom.我們希望政府及銀行會明白這些細節和利用的關鍵和密碼系統在為時太晚之前停止一個騙局繁榮。