With last week’s further revisions to the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law [Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again)], people are wondering if the federal government is going to step into the space and create a national standard. Most states have enacted some form of data breach or data privacy law, crating patchwork of [...]
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Google’s New Privacy Dashboard
Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around the world, we are very aware of the trust that you have placed in us, and our [...]
Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again)
Massachusetts has revised its data privacy regulations one more time. The revised regulations are less demanding that the original version released over a year ago. But this law is the strictest in the country and will be the de facto law of the land for many companies. Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation released [...]
How to Read a Privacy Policy
The Common Data Project surveyed the online privacy policies of the largest internet companies. Their conclusion: We realize that most users of online services have not and never will read the privacy policies so carefully crafted by teams of lawyers at Google and Microsoft. And having read all of these documents (many times over), we’re [...]
Privacy on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Here is the United States we are mostly talking about financial information and medical information when it comes to privacy and data security. The state data privacy laws focus on social security numbers and financial account information. HIPPA created a federal regulatory regime for medical information. Europe has been focused less on financial information and [...]
Massachusetts Amends Strict Data Privacy Law (Again)
UPDATE: Another revision was published on November 5, 2009. See: Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again) The Massachusetts’ Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation has decided to amend the strict data privacy law and extend the deadline for compliance. This is yet another amendment to the regulations. The last amendment had [...]
National Data Privacy Law Proposed
With a multitude of states trying to protect their citizens when it comes to breaches of personal data security, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage compliance with this patchwork of laws. The Data Accountability and Trust Act (H.R. 2221) proposed in Congress proposed to preempt state laws and make regulation of data security a [...]
Webinar Materials for: Preparing for the strictest privacy law in the nation
As a follow up to Wednesday’s lunchtime webinar sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, I wanted to post some materials for those of you that missed it and for those looking for notes and details. The slidedeck: KMA Insights Webinar July 2009 — Compliance with MA Privacy Law View more presentations from Knowledge Management Associates, LLC. [...]
2009 Data Breach Investigations Report
285 Million records were compromised in 2008. The Verizon Business RISK Team conducted a study of first hand evidence collected during data breach investigations of 90 confirmed breaches as part of their caseload. This 2008 caseload of more than 285 million records, exceeded the combined total from 2004 to 2007. 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report [...]
Ten of the Most Embarrassing Data Breaches
I gathered some notable data breaches in preparation for my presentation on the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law as part of my webinar on Wednesday: Preparing for the strictest privacy law in the nation: MA Privacy Law 201 CMR 17. If you wondered why there are so many state laws on data breaches, just take a [...]
