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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Outside of your privacy team there are members of your company that have a passion for privacy. While that passion may be driven by something outside of their business lives, their zeal can be leveraged through the establishment of a privacy community.
A privacy community improves your program\’s effectiveness and awareness Read More »
When it is all said and done, no matter what policies you put in place, no mater what procedures you define, no matter what documentation has been written to support your privacy program, it is worthless unless your organization\’s staff is knows that these tools exist making them \”privacy aware\”. Here are a couple of
Your staff needs to be \”privacy aware\” Read More »
How often have you been asked to fill out a form in a professional\’s office and there is space for your social security number causing you to wonder \”why do they need that?\” Often, if you ask, you fill find that the office staff has no idea, it has just always been done that way.
Do you really need that customer personal information? Read More »
