Posts Tagged ‘cell phone’

Where And How Do You Dispose Of Your Cell Phones and Paper Documents?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Something I’m planning to do this summer with my sons is to do some dumpster diving, with the advice of my police and security services company owner friends, to see just how much personal information is left out for just anyone walking by to pick up and use, or misuse. We’ll also see about any cell phones that were just dropped in the dumpster or trash can…
How do you dispose of your cell phones? At work, and at home? And what do you do with the papers that contain personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive information when you throw them away? Are you more diligent at work? Or at home?
With this in mind, here’s another section from the third article in my June issue of “IT Compliance in Realtime“…

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Cell Phone Text Messages Are Private…NOT!

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Uh oh…talk about a couple of folks who were caught with their hand in the cookie jar (so to speak)…and caught lying under oath.
CNN recently ran a story about how Christine Beatty resigned from her position as chief of staff for Detroit, Michigan, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick after a large amount of explicit Blackberry text messages, “tens of thousands” were discovered from 2003 and 2004.

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Cell Phone Text Messages Are Private…NOT!

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Uh oh…talk about a couple of folks who were caught with their hand in the cookie jar (so to speak)…and caught lying under oath.
CNN recently ran a story about how Christine Beatty resigned from her position as chief of staff for Detroit, Michigan, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick after a large amount of explicit Blackberry text messages, “tens of thousands” were discovered from 2003 and 2004.

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