National Consumer Protection Week 2010 is March 7-13. Take advantage of the FTC’s free resources, which can help you protect your privacy, manage money and debt, avoid identity theft, understand credit and mortgages, and steer clear of frauds and scams. This year’s theme is Dollars & Sense: Rated “A” for All Ages. The idea is … Read more »
Weekend Book Review: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Books about compliance, business ethics, law and financial markets can be well written, interesting and thought-provoking. But they’re not fun. So I decided I needed change and found a whimsically absurd novel that touches upon compliance: Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde. Chromatacia is a world where people have limited ability to see color and … Read more »
Compliance Bits and Pieces for March 5
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 … Read more »
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. … Read more »
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. Read more »
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 … Read more »
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 … Read more »
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 … Read more »
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 … Read more »
Compliance Bits and Pieces for February 26
Here are some interesting compliance related stories from the past week: List of Troubled Banks at 16-Year Peak, F.D.I.C. Says by Eric Dash in the New York Times After weathering the nation’s worst run of bank failures in nearly two decades, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced Tuesday that it had added 450 institutions to … Read more »