Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'FACTA'
I was doing a bit of research around the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and ran across an interesting recent court decision......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 11, 2009 8:24 PM
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......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 10, 2008 12:20 PM
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......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 21, 2008 8:49 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 9, 2008 11:28 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 2, 2008 10:06 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on May 28, 2008 9:18 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 26, 2007 2:41 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 2, 2007 6:19 PM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 20, 2007 12:30 AM
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)...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 19, 2007 9:50 AM
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...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 11, 2007 2:33 PM
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