I got a great question from a business friend of mine, and I wanted to provide my answer here, too, because it is something all multi-national organizations need to think about. Eric Nelson, who heads Secure Privacy Solutions asked, “If a company collects and manages PII from another country, e.g., India or the U.S., and transfers that PII to the E.U. for some type of processing or storage or even just transit, does the E.U. Data Directive apply once that PII leaves a country within the E.U.?”
Archive for August, 2008
Whose PII Is Covered Under the EU Data Protection Directive?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Privacy Concerns Of Google Walking Directions
Monday, August 4th, 2008Last Friday afternoon I got a message from a Popular Science reporter, John Brandon, asking me if I thought that the Google walking directions feature created any privacy concerns. I was finishing a client deliverable at the time, but indicated I would answer him later in the day…which I did take the time to do late in the evening instead of doing other, more recreational, things. I heard no ackowledgment or response with him about the information I provided, but he did write an article about Google walking directions that was published today, “Google Walking Directions: a Privacy Concern?”
John did just confirm to me that he had received my message but too late to include in the article.
Here is the information I provided…
Privacy Concerns Of Google Walking Directions
Monday, August 4th, 2008Last Friday afternoon I got a message from a Popular Science reporter, John Brandon, asking me if I thought that the Google walking directions feature created any privacy concerns. I was finishing a client deliverable at the time, but indicated I would answer him later in the day…which I did take the time to do late in the evening instead of doing other, more recreational, things. I heard no ackowledgment or response with him about the information I provided, but he did write an article about Google walking directions that was published today, “Google Walking Directions: a Privacy Concern?”
John did just confirm to me that he had received my message but too late to include in the article.
Here is the information I provided…
New Website Seal For Companies Participating In The EU Safe Harbor Program
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Something I’ve been spending a lot of work on this summer is creating management tools to help information security and privacy practitioners do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. In the past three months I’ve had over a dozen CISOs and CPOs call me and ask if I had specific types of tools to help them with their information security, privacy and compliance efforts and iniatives. One of the tools will help them with managing their programs and processes for, along with the many complex issues involved with, transferring personally identifiable information (PII) with any of the 27 European Union (EU) contries to the U.S. and other countries. One of the areas involved with tackling this issue is whether or not to participate in the Safe Harbor program.
So, I was very interested to read that the U.S. Commerce Department announced a new certification mark/seal for organizations to put on their websites to show that they have self-certified compliance with the Safe Harbor Framework requirements.
