Archive for January, 2009

Revisiting Google Streetview

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

A few months ago I blogged about some of the privacy issues related to Google streetview here and here.
I just noticed that Google has a nice, short video on YouTube that explains how to get images removed from Google streetview…

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Happy Data Privacy Day!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

So, what are you doing to raise awareness about privacy issues today?
I’m sending various awareness communications to several mailing lists and online groups I belong to. Here’s the message I sent to my school parents’ mailing list…

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Iowa Takes Compliance Very Seriously…

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Woman Jailed for Overdue Book

Iowa Takes Compliance Very Seriously…

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Woman Jailed for Overdue Book

Business Info Fact of the Day: PII Increasingly Stored On MP3 Players

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Over the past few months during some of my presentations I’ve discussed how easily PII can be stored on mobile storage devices that most business leaders and information security folks often do not think about or overlook. One of those devices is the innocent-looking and seemingly benign MP3 player, such as the cool ipod. You gotta love’em! I know I love mine. However, a couple of times when I talked about how easy it is to store large amounts of company data, including personally identifiable information (PII), onto MP3 players, I got some noticeable snickers and sneers from a few in the audience who apparently thought such an idea was preposterous!
Well, here are a couple of different news articles that demonstrates otherwise; both about the same incident, but each with slightly different information…

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Business Info Fact of the Day: PII Increasingly Stored On MP3 Players

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Over the past few months during some of my presentations I’ve discussed how easily PII can be stored on mobile storage devices that most business leaders and information security folks often do not think about or overlook. One of those devices is the innocent-looking and seemingly benign MP3 player, such as the cool ipod. You gotta love’em! I know I love mine. However, a couple of times when I talked about how easy it is to store large amounts of company data, including personally identifiable information (PII), onto MP3 players, I got some noticeable snickers and sneers from a few in the audience who apparently thought such an idea was preposterous!
Well, here are a couple of different news articles that demonstrates otherwise; both about the same incident, but each with slightly different information…

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More Ideas For Data Privacy Day, Jan. 28!

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

I recently blogged about the upcoming international Data Privacy Day on January 28 here.
You and/or your organization can get involved in a number of ways, even at this relatively late date. Here are a few more ideas for you to consider…

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Business Info Fact Of The Day: Smartphones CAN Be Used Securely!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

I thought it was pretty silly to read over the past few weeks that President Obama was being pressured to give up his Blackberry because of security reasons. If information security controls are properly implemented, then there is no reason that the president of the U.S., or any other person for that matter, should not use a smartphone!
I was happy to see the following article published by CNN…

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Business Info Fact Of The Day: 70% Of Top 100 Websites Link To Malicious Software

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

For those of you whose business leaders do not think website filters, IDS systems or other types of security technologies are necessary business investments, show them this article…

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New Guidelines for Safeguarding Personal Data

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Happy U.S. presidential inauguration day! 🙂 Did you take off a few minutes of work to watch the inauguration? I wasn’t going to, was planning to just catch videos on the news sites or YouTube later, but then I did, and I’m glad; it was so historical and memorable!
To celebrate, how about I tell you that NIST just made a great new document available…

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