I read a story about a city government agency actually asking job applicants to provide their IDs and passwords for any online social networking type of site they participate in…
Posts Tagged ‘personal privacy’
Don’t Manage Employee Online Activities By Requiring Their IDs & Passwords!
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Where And How Do You Dispose Of Your Cell Phones and Paper Documents?
Monday, June 30th, 2008Something 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“…
Where And How Do You Dispose Of Your Computers, CDs, USB Drives, Etc.?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008In the past few years I’ve performed over 100 information security and privacy program reviews for the vendors and business partners of my clients, and I have often found these contracted organizations have lax to non-existent to outragiously irresponsible computer and electronic storage device disposal practices. One of the “information security” policies for one of the vendors actually directed their personnel to try to sell their old computers and storage devices on e-Bay or other online sites in order to recoup some of the costs…this was in their “Information Disposal Security Policy”! It had absolutely no mention of removing the data before trying to sell the devices; the main intent was to recoup as much of the investment as possible.
With this in mind, here’s another section from the third article in my June issue of “IT Compliance in Realtime“…
$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.
Insider Threat Example: Programmer Sentenced To 30 Months In Jail And $81,200 Fine
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Here’s a case I blogged about amost exactly a year ago, but it is worth revisiting since the sentencing for the crime was just handed down and it was significant. If you haven’t already, put this in your file of actual examples to incorporate into your information security and privacy awareness and training activities and content.
On January 8 a federal court in Newark, New Jersey, sentenced Yung-Hsun “Andy” Lin, a former systems administrator for Medco Health Solutions Inc., to 30 months in prison for transmitting computer code intended to wipe out data stored on Medco’s network; composed of more than 70 servers.
Terrorists Over 50 Don’t Fly According To The DHS
Friday, January 11th, 2008Egregious 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.
International PII Data Transfers: New Requirements from Spain
Monday, July 30th, 2007In 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.
