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 someone logged in to potentially see […]
Over the past few days I have been pondering everything that has happened in privacy in 2015 and the impact on organizations. My intent was to write a retrospective blog entry, but this morning I decided to look ahead and not in the rear-view mirror. So here are three thoughts to kickoff 2016.
Three privacy thoughts to start 2016 Read More »
I recently had a conversation with a colleague about privacy impact assessments, PIAs, and the tools available to administer them. We quickly became philosophical, trying to weigh whether a generic tool would work or if something that is organization specific is necessary.
Privacy Impact Assessments: Organization-specific or Generic PIAs Read More »
For the holidays, I bought my wife a Samsung Gear Fit. She is training for a 10k run and a half marathon next year, so she wants to track her progress prepare for these events. When the Gear Fit arrived in the mail, my wife asked that I set it up for her while she was
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In the recent past a local police officer was involved in a shooting resulting in a citizen\’s death. Soon after, the cry of \”if only there was a body camera we would know what happened\” was heard. I agree. However any police department needs to put policies in place to protect citizens\’ privacy when cameras
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Data breaches seem almost ubiquitous in the past few years. Companies such as Target, Home Depot, and recently Experian experienced breaches resulting in tens of millions of records being leaked. There is more to these than just hackers or a single point of failure. Many times, breaches are can be a perfect storm of conditions
It has been a very exciting and tumultuous October for privacy professionals. The IAPP Privacy, Security, and Risk Conference in Las Vegas started the month, we had a breach of 15 million individuals, and Safe Harbor was struck down by the EU Court of Justice after the protest of an Austrian student. With the loss
At the very end of August I changed banks for both personal and business accounts. Of course we received the obligatory debit cards, a total of 4 of them. Last week we began receiving notices of \”Unusual Debit Card Activity\”.
I smell a data breach Read More »
Transferring personal information from the EU to the US has been a challenge. Today it may have become more difficult with the EU Court of Justice finding that Safe Harbor is invalid. For those 4,000 or so businesses that use Safe Harbor for data transfers the question is how to go ahead.
Safe Harbor Found \”Invalid\”, Now What? Read More »
Like many Americans I grew up idolizing football players, quarterbacks in particular. Joe Namath and Tom Brady are among those I have enjoyed watching play. Who would of thought that these two men who played in different eras would provide examples for a privacy discussion for business.
Tom Brady, Joe Namath, and Privacy Read More »
