Posts Tagged ‘Department of Commerce’

1746 Organizations In The U.S.’s EU Safe Harbor Program

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

A type of project I really love to do is a privacy impact assessment (PIA). For companies who collect or otherwise handle the personally identifiable information (PII) of individuals from multiple countries, typically doing a cross border data flow analysis of the PII is within the scope of the PIA.

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Example privacy breach response plan

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Too few organizations are prepared to respond to a privacy breach when it happens. Too many naively believe a privacy breach will not happen to them.
It is helpful to look at existing privacy breach notice plans when creating your own. The U.S. government agencies actually provide some good plans you can use as examples.

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