If you attended our most recent quarterly data breach review, you probably heard a new term: “metagame.”  The idea, put in its simplest form, is to take information from outside a scenario and use it to influence your choices.  It is amazing how using information that is not necessarily inside yo...

Irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.  So when I got a phone call asking to speak with Bob Siegel about his room for the upcoming IAPP Summit, I was surprised by the ironic situation I was faced […]

Very common questions we get from clients are how much information should they collect and how long they should keep it.  The standard answer is always to collect only what you need to do business and get rid of it when you no longer need it.  Now the questions become what information is truly ne...

Does your US organization do business in Europe? If so, the rules for collecting and moving the personal data of EU citizens across borders and into the US are about to change. A new EU regulation is taking shape under a tight deadline and intense pressure that will force changes to some common p...

Earlier this month, Valve experienced an issue with data caching and what some call a data breach.  Valve is a gaming company famous for many titles, but also for their virtual storefront, Steam.  The short story is that Valve’s virtual storefront, known as Steam, had a glitch that allowed someon...