Do any of you really think that there is a single place on earth that cannot be looked down upon from satellites too high in the sky to see with the naked eye? Google continues their march to know all and see all…
Archive for the ‘Privacy and Compliance’ Category
Surveillance: I Spy With My Little Eye Some Potlikker Pie
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Don’t Be A Dodo; Follow Privacy Requirements!
Monday, February 2nd, 2009I just ran across a privacy law non-compliance fine news report from Australia that was published October 22, 2008…
Revisiting Google Streetview
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Happy Data Privacy Day!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009So, 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…
Business Info Fact of the Day: PII Increasingly Stored On MP3 Players
Monday, January 26th, 2009Over 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…
Business Info Fact of the Day: PII Increasingly Stored On MP3 Players
Monday, January 26th, 2009Over 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…
More Ideas For Data Privacy Day, Jan. 28!
Sunday, January 25th, 2009New Guidelines for Safeguarding Personal Data
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Happy 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…
Business Info Fact Of The Day: Smart Business Leaders Encrypt PII
Friday, January 16th, 2009If you are a business leader you must know and understand that encrypting personally identifiable information (PII) protects that PII from being used for identity theft and other crimes should it fall into the hands of a crook. Business leaders need to know this, but unfortunately too many do not really know what encryption is, let alone how it can be used to protect PII, along with the business.
