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Big Brother Likes Big Data – Balancing Privacy with Innovation

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

My 12-year-old son said to me yesterday after getting home from school, “Hey, Mommy, did you know that Wal-Mart can tell when you’re pregnant? And so can Target! Even before anyone else knows! They got a girl in trouble when they sent her dad coupons for baby stuff and congratulated her!”

Me, “That’s pretty incredible, isn’t it? Companies are able to discover things like that about people more than ever before through analyzing what is called ‘Big Data’.”

Son, “That’s really creepy. I think you should (more…)

Tags:audit, big data, breach, breach response, change controls, compliance, data analytics, data mining, encryption, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, midmarket, non-compliance, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, security, security engineering, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, Target, Wal-Mart
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Back to the Future Security Basics: Security through Obscurity Still Does Not Work

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Last week I provided Howard Anderson at HealthInfosecurity.com with some of my thoughts about the recent Utah Department of Health breach of the files of 900,000 individuals, and counting. He included some of my thoughts in his blog post, along with thoughts from others. I wanted to provide my full reply here, along with some expanded thoughts.

As background, for those of you who may not have heard of this hack yet, in a nutshell: (more…)

Tags:audit, breach, breach response, change controls, compliance, DTS, encryption, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, IT security, Medicaid, midmarket, non-compliance, personal information, personally identifiable information, PHI, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, Rebecca Herold, security, security engineering, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, Utah
Posted in BA, CE, healthcare, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, Privacy Incidents | No Comments »

6 Good Reasons to De-Identify Data

Friday, March 30th, 2012

De-identification is a great privacy tool for all types of businesses, of all sizes. If you have personal data that you want to use for research, marketing, testing applications, statistical trending or some other legitimate purpose, but you don’t need to know the specific individuals involved in order to meet your goals, then you should consider de-identifying the personal data. Even though it sounds complicated there are many good methods you can use to accomplish de-identification. And the great thing is, (more…)

Tags:anonymous, breach, compliance, de-identified data, de-identify, employment practice, encryption, IBM, Keywords: personal information, midmarket, non-compliance, personally identifiable information, PHI, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, protected health information, re-identification, re-identify, Rebecca Herold, security, sensitive personal information, SPI
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Posts Tagged ‘SPI’

Big Brother Likes Big Data – Balancing Privacy with Innovation

Back to the Future Security Basics: Security through Obscurity Still Does Not Work

6 Good Reasons to De-Identify Data

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