head-down adj.— «An in-depth corporate workplace survey showed that the main problems for those working in traditional eight- by nine-foot cubes was the lack of privacy and difficulty in doing heads-down work. For employees who had already been...
PattyMail n.— «If you’ve been following the HP privacy debacle at all, then you’d know that one of the techniques that investigators tried on CNET News.com’s Dawn Kawamoto (in order to figure out who her source inside HP was) was to send her a...
Data Valdez n.— «Information brokers and the public now find themselves in a highly publicized pickle, Homeland Security Dept. privacy chief Nuala O’Connor Kelly said, likening data spills to oil or chemical spills in their capacity to wreck lives...
data valdez n.— «“If we don’t see headlines in a bad way, if we don’t see a ‘data valdez,’ a ‘data spill,’ then we’ll know they’re doing their jobs well,” says David Steer, spokesman for TRUSTe, which certifies the reliability of e-vendors in...
data Valdez
n.— «Two articles on health insurer’s privacy problem (from Washington Post and SF Chronicle). Good example of a data valdez!» —“HMO Breaches Members’ Privacy” Usenet: alt.privacy Aug. 23, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
phone club n.— «There exists truly in New York what’s known as a phone club and you simply call up and say, “Are you free tonight?’ The other individual on the other side says “Yes,” and they say, “Fine. Plaza Hotel. 11 o’clock in front of the Blue...