Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'data protection law'
A big thank you to Brandon Dunlap and Brett Myers for catching an error I made in my January 1 post......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 3, 2009 9:25 PM
Happy New Year! Several news laws go into effect today. Here are just a few of them......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 1, 2009 2:55 PM
There is a growing trend in laws that require personally identifiable information (PII) to be encrypted. Encryption in past laws have been directed to be considered based upon risk, but now they are more explicitly required in some laws....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 29, 2008 8:58 AM
This morning I took a little time to update my long listing of world-wide data protection (privacy) laws. Here are some of them you may find helpful:...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 19, 2008 10:40 AM
Here's a case I found interesting...the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on October 24th that providing a group of record company plaintiffs with student personally identifiable information (PII) does not violate the U.S. Family Educational...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 6, 2007 8:49 PM
Here's another insider threat example to know and to discuss with your legal counsel and HR folks. It highlights the need for information security and privacy policies, shows how information security and privacy must work with multiple areas on an...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 5, 2007 2:30 AM
I, along with a very large number of other bloggers, writers and instructors, often pick apart data protection and privacy laws and regulations, and point out how certain portions of them are infeasible for most organizations to implement, and talk...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 4, 2007 8:54 AM
on 8/22/2007 a very interesting and useful report was released by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), "Information security awareness initiatives: Current practice and the measurement of success."...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 24, 2007 1:29 PM
Multi-national organizations doing business in Europe must know and understand not only their obligations to protect personally identifiable information (PII) under the European Union (EU) Data Protection Directive 95/45/EC, but they must also know and understand the data protection laws...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 22, 2007 11:31 AM
On Monday (1/8) the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) implemented a stronger Data Protection Law and appointed a Data Protection Commission to oversee the DIFC. "The Data Protection Law, which has been amended following a period of public consultation, ensures...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 11, 2007 9:08 AM
On January 4th the 110th U.S. congress convened for the first time, and they did not waste any time introducing many new bills. 12 of them have privacy impacts. You can find more information about each of these at the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 10, 2007 10:33 AM
We are undergoing a data protection renaissance. New laws have considerably expanded corporate obligations regarding security and privacy for information in all forms. A significant obligation of the laws is applicable to basically all organizations; the duty to provide reasonable...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 30, 2006 1:17 PM
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