Okay, after the recent passport files snooping debacle I found today’s news story, “Outsourcing passports ‘profound liability’” very ironic and concerning.
Not only for the reported huge waste of taxpayers’ dollars, but also for the security risks…
Posts Tagged ‘policies and procedures’
Who Had The Brilliant Idea To Outsource U.S. Passports?
Thursday, March 27th, 2008The Benefits of a Privacy Ombudsman
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008The folks from Cutter just notified me that an excerpt from a recent article I wrote, “Learning from a Privacy Ombudsman: A Case Study to Establish a Healthcare Services Ombudsman,” will soon be featured in the “Quote of the Day” section of the Cutter Web site.
Here’s the excerpt…
Yet Another Stolen Laptop With Clear Text Patient PII
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Yet another in a long procession of laptop thefs, “Stolen laptop contains personal info of 2,500 patients“.
Here are the first few paragraphs…
The Emperors’ New Clothes Lack Privacy
Friday, March 21st, 2008Over the past few weeks I’ve talked to several privacy officers and information security officers about how things are going with their initiatives, funding, and so on. Many from the financial industry, but otherwise a wide range of businesses from small to large. There has been a common theme during these discussions…
Useful Data Protection (Privacy) Law Sites
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008This morning I took a little time to update my long listing of world-wide data protection (privacy) laws.
Here are some of them you may find helpful:
HIPAA *HAS* Impacted Healthcare Providers…Despite Lack Of Enforcement
Monday, March 17th, 2008I have written many times about how the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has severely weakened the planned privacy and security goals of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to require healthcare covered entities (CEs) to implement strong safeguards for the protected health information (PHI) with which they’ve been entrusted. And I still believe that.
However, after reading a another report today I realized something…
Spitzer Downfall Spotlights Surveillance In Mainstream
Saturday, March 15th, 2008In case you haven’t heard, now ex-New York-governor Elliot Spitzer recently was found to be the frequent customer of a “high end call girl service” for the past couple of years.
How was he caught? Through an electronic path he left making payments for his philandering flings.
Information Security and Privacy Areas MUST Collaborate For Their Initiatives To Be Effective
Friday, March 14th, 2008For the past several years I have written often, and given much training, to demonstrate and emphasize the need for information security and privacy areas to collaborate in their efforts. There are just too many topic overlaps between the two areas to NOT work together cooperatively.
Effectively addressing and coordinating Privacy and Information Security initiatives has moved to the top of the list for companies maintaining customer and employee information. However, there are often gaps in communication and collaboration between Privacy and Information Security activities.
What Business Leaders Need to Know About Privacy Breach Notifications
Thursday, March 13th, 2008The third article in my March e-journal issue of “IT Compliance in Realtime” is “What Business Leaders Need to Know About Privacy Breach Notifications.”
Here it is, unformatted:
