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Court Decision on FACTA Credit Card Transaction Receipt Violations

I was doing a bit of research around the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and ran across an interesting recent court decision......

Sloppy Disposal Aids Cybercriminals

For day 3 of Global Security Week I want to talk a little bit about the importance of securely disposing of your papers and storage media that contains personal information......

Company Uses Negotiated Checks For Packing Material!

Not much surprises me any more with regard to some of the silly things that organizations do with printed PII that put the involved individuals at risk. However, I was surprised when I watched an ABC News report this morning......

Laws & Regulations Require Security & Privacy Training & Awareness

I'm in the final weeks of creating some privacy breach training courses that will not only help personnel to prevent privacy breaches, but also help support compliance with the FACTA Red Flags rule, the at least 45 U.S. privacy breach...

Texas EZPawn Throws Away Its Security Promises and Customers' Privacy and Gets A Handed A Significant Penalty

Well, here is yet another company that had a nasty habit of just throwing papers containing their customers' personally identifiable information (PII) into publicly accessible trash cans. On June 24 a Texas judge handed down a civil penalty of $600,000...

Business Leader Primer for Effective Information Disposal

I've been talking a lot lately about the need for business leaders to more effectively address the secure disposal of information, particularly personally identifiable information (PII). Why? Because it seems like more and more attention is being given to security...

FTC Fines Mortgage Co. For Tossing PII Into Dumpster: FACTA/FCRA, GLBA, & FTC Act Violations

On December 17 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined and penalized American United Mortgage Company for throwing the personally identifiable information (PII) and financial information of its customers and consumers into an open, publicly-accessible dumpster. Under the terms of...

Definitions For the Identity Theft Prevention Program Rule Under FACTA & Questions For Your Organization

In addition to some great followup questions I got from Andy in response to my blog posting yesterday, "FTC Now Requires Organizations to Have an Identity Theft Prevention Program" I have also received some interesting questions from others about the...

Information Security: Laws Require Secure Disposal of Information in All Forms; Using BS 8470:2006 for Compliance

Many information security incidents have occurred through non-technical means by simply and thoughtlessly throwing away printed documents into publicly-accessible trash bins, or even putting computers and sensitive documents out on the streets. I have blogged about this several times, such...

Over 100 FACTA Lawsuits Filed in California Against Businesses Printing PII on Receipts; Are You In Compliance With All FACTA Requirements?

I read with interest an article in today's issue of the BNA Privacy and Security Law Report about over 100 lawsuits that have recently been filed within the California federal courts because of the amount of personally identifiable information (PII)...

Privacy Breach: Johns Hopkins University Lost Personal Information on 135,000 Individuals

There now seem to be so many privacy breaches that it is hard to choose which one to discuss... Last Wednesday, 2/7, Johns Hopkins University reported personal information on 135,000 employees and patients on nine backup tapes were missing that...

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