Just like HIPPA is not HIPAA.  Privacy is a very different thing than security.  I am exploring a career move and I have been searching out and assessing possible privacy positions with many different types …

More than half of Fortune 1000 companies lack a full-time chief information security officer, only 38% have a chief security officer, and just 20% have a chief privacy officer. As a result, a majority of …

What is privacy?  What does the concept of privacy mean to you?
The answer to these questions may change depending on who you are what you do and what your connection with privacy concepts is.  Are …

Information security, particularly in central government, is undoubtedly improving, but several common problems remain, says the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
A lack of awareness of information security is chief among them, deputy information commissioner David Smith …

The European Commission has adopted today a Decision updating the standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in non-EU countries that are not recognised as offering an adequate level of …

In a continuing legal education seminar sponsored by MCLE on January 12, 2010, Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of Consumer Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, OCABR, the agency responsible for promulgating the new Massachusetts Data Privacy …

On January 8, 2010, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court “Bundesverwaltungsgericht” published a decision that declared the transfer of banking data to U.S. law enforcement authorities by the Swiss bank UBS to be illegal.  In late …

The need for protection against cyber crime is ever increasing, especially considering the volume of personally identifiable information (PII) and financial transactions which corporations and financial institutions manage on a daily basis. Moreover, cyber crime …

Rebecca Herold’s MEETING THE PRIVACY CHALLENGES IN BUSINESS THE CURRENT PRIVACY LANDSCAPE: PART 1 OF 2 published by SAI Global is a must read for any corporate leader.  The regulatory landscape in privacy and data security is …

The press has been all over President-Elect Barack Obama’s addiction to his BlackBerry and the possibility that he might have to give it up for reasons of national security. But no one in the media …