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Spitzer Downfall Spotlights Surveillance In Mainstream

In 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.

This real-life soap opera has brought attention to surveillance activities in general, and to the pervasive surveillance practices of the government.

To see an example of a story that will surely raise concerns for how far not only the government goes in logging activities, but also the businesses with which they do business, read, "They Watched Spitzer and They Watch You. Credit Card or Bank Transaction: Somebody Watches; Think Twice Before You Swipe That Card, Because Everything Is Being Tracked"

Is your organization prepared to answer your customers', and your employees', questions about the type of tracking and logging it does?

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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 over 18 years. 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 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. 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 11th 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.