It shouldn’t still amaze me, but it does, how often so many organizations just dump huge amounts of printed paper containing tons of personally identifiable information (PII) right into their dumpster sitting behind their building, in the alley, or some other easily reachable public location.
Here’s yet another example of a business throwing away people’s privacy in their trash dumpster…
Archive for the ‘Privacy Incidents’ Category
Have You Looked In Your Trash Bins Lately?
Monday, February 18th, 2008Phisherthieves Like Banks Best
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Here’s a pretty good mainstream news story from CNN to give to your business leaders to raise their awareness and understanding about phishing…
$54 Million Lawsuit Against Best Buy For Losing Laptop
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008I knew the civil suits for lost laptops would start soon. Thanks so much to my buddy Alec for pointing out this story to me!
Raelyn Campbell took a laptop computer to Best Buy to get fixed, and three months later, after giving Campbell the run-around, Best Buy admitted to her that they lost the computer.
Give a Hoot, Don’t Privacy Pollute!
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I just saw a term that can be used really well with non-technical folks, “data pollution.”
I wish I had thought of that term!
A Stolen Health Insurer’s Laptop With PII Is Not Necessarily A HIPAA Violation
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008While scanning the news blurb summaries today, the statement, “This is a violation of HIPAA.” caught my eye. Hmm…let’s see what this is about…
This statement was actually within the reader comments to the story, “Blue Cross reports theft of computer.”
A Stolen Health Insurer’s Laptop With PII Is Not Necessarily A HIPAA Violation
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008While scanning the news blurb summaries today, the statement, “This is a violation of HIPAA.” caught my eye. Hmm…let’s see what this is about…
This statement was actually within the reader comments to the story, “Blue Cross reports theft of computer.”
Egregious Privacy Infringment: Fire Chief Emails Photo Of Topless Crash Victim
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Here is an example of how personnel can take photos and videos and completely invade the privacy of others, particularly those who have no voice to say stop.
A Central Florida fire chief will likely lose his job for widely emailing photos from a crash scene of a female victim that included view of her exposed breasts as paramedics were attending to her.
2 Years Following Major Privacy Breach, Bahamas Puts Up Data Protection Web Site
Sunday, December 16th, 2007A couple of years ago I finally took my family on a vacation to the Bahamas after not going on any type of vacation for several years. Five months later I learned…from my friends and not from the hotel…that a major breach occurred at the hotel; the credit card files for tens of thousands of their customers had been compromised.
I never did get a notification of the breach from the hotel. However, I did confirm through the Bahamas government, and subsequent widely published reports, that the breach did indeed occur.
