Posts Tagged ‘SSA’
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
One of the things I love about helping all my Compliance Helper (CH) clients with their information security and privacy compliance activities is that they often ask questions that most other small and mid-size organizations also have. So, I then have a great opportunity to share advice! One of my recent conversations dealt with the challenges my mid-size client was having in trying to appropriately customize the data and records retention policy and procedure I provide through the CH service to fit his organization’s unique type of business associate service, while also meet compliance with the HIPAA retention requirements. The paraphrased questions below started our conversation after I advised that there are many types of documents that must be retained for at least 6 years to meet compliance: (more…)
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Last month I had the great pleasure of being a guest on Scott Draughon and Anyck Turgeon’s MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show for a segment entitled, “Is encryption enough to achieve privacy?”
I was pleasantly surprised to see a large number of great follow-up questions following the show!
I covered one of them in my post, “Don’t Throw Your Privacy Out The Window; Know How Your PII Is Used” Here are a couple more of those many questions I want to answer in this post…
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Tags:21 CFR Part 11, ADA, awareness and training, data retention, HIPAA, HITECH, Information Security, IT compliance, IT training, personally identifiable information, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, security training, SSA
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
The new U.S. Social Security number (SSN) No Match Rule was published August 15 in the Federal Register. You can also see it here.
This new regulation provides directives for the letters the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) issues to employers when the SSA discovers that an SSN does not match the information provided by the employer.
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Tags:awareness and training, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Information Security, IT compliance, no match letter, no match rule, PII, policies and procedures, privacy, risk management, social security administration, social security number, SSA, SSN
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