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July 2, 2009

Nevada's New Encryption Law; Made Moot By Its Own Data Breach Law?

On May 30, 2009, Nevada enacted a new law, SB 227, which will basically replace NRS 597.970 in January 2010.

In many ways the new law is an improvement over the much more vague, and brief, NRS 597.970. I want to focus here on an improvement, but something that still leaves much to interpretation; that is, what is meant by "encryption"?

 
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July 1, 2009

Stolen Print Documents With PII Found On Crook; Otherwise UCM Would Not Have Known The Reports Were Stolen

Late last week one of my alma maters, the University of Central Missouri, reported that two printed computer reports containing 7000 students' names, social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and birthdates were stolen from somewhere on the campus.

 
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June 30, 2009

Hear Common, Dumb and Dangerous Privacy Assumptions On The Radio!

Today I will be on MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show to an hour program talking about the common privacy mistakes and assumptions made by businesses. This will be a more in-depth look at the issues from my post from a couple of weeks ago, "5 Common, Dumb and Dangerous Privacy Assumptions"

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June 29, 2009

South Carolina & Alaska Privacy Breach Notice Laws Go Into Effect July 1

This week two more U.S. breach notice laws go into effect...

 
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June 25, 2009

Voice Recognition Software Puts Top Cop In Hot Water

Yesterday I read a fascinating story from Australia...

 
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June 23, 2009

Movies and TV Shows to Use for Infosec and Privacy Training and Awareness

After many long hours, I've finally submitted the draft manuscript for the 2nd edition of my "Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program" book. However, I will still have one more chance to make changes. One of the 23 appendices within my book provides lists of resources; books, web sites, activities, games and so on. One of my lists is for movies and television shows that can be used in training or for awareness activities...

 
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June 18, 2009

Don't Manage Employee Online Activities By Requiring Their IDs & Passwords!

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...

 
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June 17, 2009

5 Common, Dumb and Dangerous Privacy Assumptions

Today Kevin Beaver posted a nice article, "Dumb things IT consultants do" that included more than one warning about making assumptions. Kevin's nice post made me think about all the dangerous assumptions consulants and practitioners often make when it comes to evaluating privacy practices...

 
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Rebecca Herold's Bio:

Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.