Like larger enterprises, small and medium businesses (SMBs) collect personal information about their customers, employees, vendors and other stakeholders; it is just part of doing business. Establishing an SMB privacy program would be very beneficial for these businesses, but for the majority of SMBs the thought of protecting personal information is not a priority. At […]
SMB privacy: no free pass Read More »
Earlier this week a photo was posted on Facebook that was intended to be shared just with friends. The photo was tagged with someone appearing in it allowing tagged person\’s friends to see the photo. One friend of the tagged person re-posted the photo and before you know it the photo went viral on Twitter. The
Keep your privacy policy simple Read More »
Having a privacy notice for customers to review is an essential part of any privacy program. When Delta Airlines added a privacy notice to their mobile app, \”Fly Delta\”, to comply with California law, the policy did not reflect reality. When creating a privacy notice you need to say what you do and do what
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As a child growing up in New York City I always wanted to go to the Macy\’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The floats, the balloons, the clowns, the celebrities, the marching bands, the scraps of personal information….wait…personal information?
Personal Information From Above Read More »
One of the people to follow on Twitter is John Fontana (@JohnFontana), a self described \”Evangelist for identity; also cloud, security for PingIdentity. ZDNet blogger. Tapping social media tools and reporting news of the day. Rando skier, cyclist\”. In a recent exchange of tweets with John the topic of the day centered on recent data breaches
Intellectual Property and your Privacy Program Read More »
Every week there seems to be news about some hacker that has accessed a server and stole a password file or that some phishing scheme is asking users to share their passwords. Since passwords are the gateway to your customers\’ and employee\’s personal information, as well as your intellectual property they are a sought after commodity that need
Enforced password policies help protect customer and employee personal information Read More »
The images coming from the New York metropolitan area this week have been mind numbing. Having grown up in the Rockaways has driven home the impact of the devastation that one storm has caused. If you know of someone caught in the middle of all this, I hope they have fared well in the grand scheme
Will Sandy cause a privacy nightmare? Read More »
Most of the broadcast news over the past few nights has understandably focused on Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath. However, it was another story that caught my attention because of the use of personal information by law enforcement. It reminded me that with all the privacy concerns we struggle over that there are times when
The value in personal information Read More »
Consumers, both business and individual, not only expect your organization to have a privacy policy, they also expect you to regularly train your staff, enforce the policy, and assess the overall health of the privacy program.. A company\’s privacy policies, processes, and oversight reflect how the organization is responding to the responsibility of protecting personal information their
Having a privacy policy is just a start Read More »
TD Bank has notified their customers of a data breach through the loss of a backup tape. Initial reports have said that the tapes contain the account information and Social Security numbers of more than 267,000 customers on the US East Coast. The tape was not encrypted so, while the bank is unaware of any
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