Here are some compliance related stories from the past week: Setting Off Alarm Bells at Work by Steven D. Levitt on Freakonomics Apparently, the use of such internet sites [Facebook] is not tolerated by CPS and rather than block those websites altogether, accessing them causes this ear-piercing noise to go off that sounds something like [...]
Archive | March, 2010
Wikis, Learning, Teaching and Compliance
I am a believer that the use of 2.0 tools can help compliance professionals. (Hopefully, this blog is a part of that proof.) Moving to the inherently open communication of 2.0 tools from the inherently private channel communication of email can expose sunlight on behavior and expose information. Incorrect information and behavior can be corrected. [...]
The Basics of Corporate Structure
Are you’re looking for some basic understanding of corporate organizations, sprinkled with some pro-business propaganda? I have a video for you. The Business Roundtable is an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies.
Madoff Losses Down from $65 Billion to $20 Billion
How do you value fraud? When the Madoff ponzi scheme collapsed the claim was that there was $65 billion in losses. That was the total dollar value on the account statements given to investors. Of course, that number was fictional because there were not real assets behind those numbers. The trustee overseeing the liquidation of [...]
Data breach Sharing Framework
With the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law now in place (and presumably you are in compliance with it), you need to think about what to do if you have an incident. Verizon has published the Verizon Incident Sharing Framework to help. Our goal for our customers, friends, and anyone responsible for incident response, is to be [...]
Data Breaches and Knowledge Management
One of the features of the new Massachusetts Data Privacy Law is that it forces some knowledge management on companies in the context of data breaches. Since the law required compliance on or before March 1, 2010, I assume you already have the policy and safeguards in place. That is, if you have social security [...]
Today is the Deadline for the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law
March 1 is the compliance deadline for the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law. 201 CMR 17.00 requires you to be in full compliance on or before January 1, 2009 January 1, 2010 March 1, 2010. If your company receives, stores, maintains, processes or otherwise has access to “personal information” acquired in connection with employment or with [...]
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