Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'personal privacy'
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......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 18, 2009 9:24 PM
Something I'm planning to do this summer with my sons is to do some dumpster diving, with the advice of my police and security services company owner friends, to see just how much personal information is left out for just...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 30, 2008 9:17 PM
In the past few years I've performed over 100 information security and privacy program reviews for the vendors and business partners of my clients, and I have often found these contracted organizations have lax to non-existent to outragiously irresponsible computer...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 29, 2008 1:00 PM
I knew the civil suits for lost laptops would start soon. Thanks so much to my buddy Alec for pointing out this story to me! Raelyn Campbell took a laptop computer to Best Buy to get fixed, and three months...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 13, 2008 11:08 AM
This is a sad example of how others take it upon themselves to invade the privacy of others and don't understand that they're doing anything wrong......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 12, 2008 9:12 AM
Here's a case I blogged about amost exactly a year ago, but it is worth revisiting since the sentencing for the crime was just handed down and it was significant. If you haven't already, put this in your file of...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 13, 2008 12:39 PM
I just read this and found the implication that folks over 50 years of age are not terrorist threats rather odd. Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released some new rules related to READ ID....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 11, 2008 12:51 PM
I've blogged several times, such as here, here and here, about how information posted to the Internet, such as on Facebook and other social networking sites, cannot be considered as being private or secure, have been used to make hiring...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 11, 2008 10:30 AM
Here is an example of how personnel can take photos and videos and completely invade the privacy of others, particularly those who have no voice to say stop. A Central Florida fire chief will likely lose his job for widely...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 8, 2008 2:23 PM
I've been intrigued lately with PCI DSS compliance. It has all retailers on edge, has multiple vendors drooling, and has spawned new laws and bills, such as in Minnesota and Texas. I've had interesting discussions about it with those who...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 27, 2007 4:01 PM
Over the past month or so I've been discussing the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) with some of my information assurance practitioner friends and colleagues and what they've been doing to meet the requirements and accompanying challenges....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 23, 2007 11:45 AM
On Tuesday, February 6, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., filed legislation,the Personal Data Privacy Act of 2007, that would, among other things, require organizations to notify consumers of security breaches as well as mandate the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 8, 2007 12:30 AM
The Halifax Bank of Scotland sent the complete account information for 75,000 of their customers to one customer who had requested a copy of her own statement....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 7, 2007 12:30 AM
According to a congressional testimony report posted February 1, "Private Health Records: Privacy Implications of the Federal Government's Health Information Technology Initiative," the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) needs to do more to address privacy and security concerns...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 5, 2007 10:28 AM
Let's look at the events that have occurred with the recent TJX computer hack and resulting privacy breach and identity thefts:...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 4, 2007 10:01 PM
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