Posts Tagged ‘government’

New FTC Spam & Phishing Report

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

On December 28 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made a new report available to the public, “Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions.”
The report describes the findings from a July 2007 workshop the FTC hosted, and proposes follow-up action steps to mitigate the damages caused by malicious spam and phishing.

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Judge Rules University Policy & FERPA Allow Student PII To Be Released

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Here’s a case I found interesting…the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on October 24th that providing a group of record company plaintiffs with student personally identifiable information (PII) does not violate the U.S. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

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Judge Rules University Policy & FERPA Allow Student PII To Be Released

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Here’s a case I found interesting…the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on October 24th that providing a group of record company plaintiffs with student personally identifiable information (PII) does not violate the U.S. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

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Do Something To Change Information Security, Privacy and Compliance…Contact Congress!

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

I, along with a very large number of other bloggers, writers and instructors, often pick apart data protection and privacy laws and regulations, and point out how certain portions of them are infeasible for most organizations to implement, and talk about the types of laws that should be inacted to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and privacy. But how many of us actually do something about it and contact our lawmakers to communicate this information?

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Do Something To Change Information Security, Privacy and Compliance…Contact Congress!

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

I, along with a very large number of other bloggers, writers and instructors, often pick apart data protection and privacy laws and regulations, and point out how certain portions of them are infeasible for most organizations to implement, and talk about the types of laws that should be inacted to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and privacy. But how many of us actually do something about it and contact our lawmakers to communicate this information?

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Judge Rules USA PATRIOT Act Breaks Separation of Powers Requirements

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

There was some very interesting news in the Kansas City Star today; “Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act

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Judge Rules USA PATRIOT Act Breaks Separation of Powers Requirements

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

There was some very interesting news in the Kansas City Star today; “Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act

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International PII Data Transfers: New Requirements from Spain

Monday, July 30th, 2007

In this global economy it is important for you to know, understand and follow the data protection laws in all the countries where you have offices, have customers, store personally identifiable information (PII) and from where PII is accessed. Each country has nuances within their laws that could create quite a big obstacle if you are doing business there and find you must suddenly stop because you are out of compliance with their data protection laws.

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Did You Know This About U.S. Bank Check Processing Compliance?

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I’m thankful to be able to have my own company of one to do what I enjoy so much with information security, privacy and compliance. I am also an active part of managing the farm business for my family. With these two businesses comes A LOT of paperwork, along with checks that must regularly be sent in to various government agencies.

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