Posts Tagged ‘policies and procedures’

Data Privacy Day Activities That Deserve Recognition

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

January 28 was international Data Privacy Day, which I blogged about a few times here, here, and here.
While the Intel site posted about many of the events that occurred, there were many more they missed.
Here are a few of them:

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New Online Behavioral Advertising Principles: Self Regulation Does Not Mean Less Scrutiny By The FTC!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

On February 12 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the most actively aggressive oversight agency in the U.S. with regard to enforcing privacy protections, released new behavioral advertising principles

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Cloudy Privacy Computing

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Cloud computing is an attractive, low-cost means of collaboration. But have you considered the risks involved with placing documents with PII “in the cloud”?
The monthly column I wrote for the December 2008 CSI Alert was, “Cloudy Privacy Computing.” Here’s the first section…

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Using Facebook To Serve Lien Notices

Friday, February 13th, 2009

I just ran across this article while doing some research, and it made me go, “Whoa!”…

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New Report Finds HIPAA Privacy Rule Is Ineffective As Written

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Today the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report, “Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research“…

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Surveillance: I Spy With My Little Eye Some Potlikker Pie

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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…

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Txt Phishing (Vishing) In Iowa: MetaBank NOT Calling!

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Boy, all throughout the day I heard on the radio, and it was all over the noon and evening news, that Iowa customers of MetaBank were receiving text messages on their phones to call MetaBank about unusual activity in their account…

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Don’t Be A Dodo; Follow Privacy Requirements!

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

I just ran across a privacy law non-compliance fine news report from Australia that was published October 22, 2008…

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Revisiting Google Streetview

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

A few months ago I blogged about some of the privacy issues related to Google streetview here and here.
I just noticed that Google has a nice, short video on YouTube that explains how to get images removed from Google streetview…

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Happy Data Privacy Day!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

So, 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…

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