ABOUT US PRIVACY SERVICES
        
  PRIVACY ASSESSMENT 
Taking a snapshot of your current privacy status. We classify and inventory your personal data and highlight your top areas of privacy risk. Joining the Safe Harbor? We'll perform your due diligence.
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  POLICY AND PROCESS DESIGN    

Providing you the documents you'll need for global compliance
including: privacy and security
policies, vendor assurance, incident response, subject data access, opt-out integration, and more. 
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  EMPLOYEE AWARENESS   
Creating and delivering the content for multimedia, global awareness campaigns on privacy and security. We measure before-and-after employee comprehension to help
you demonstrate value.
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We bring order to data MPC helps multinational corporations, government agencies, universities, and nonprofits find their sensitive data, classify it, control it, and systematically retire it.  We count among our clients 15-person professional offices and $100 billion conglomerates.  Founded in 2006, MPC specializes in the industries of the upper Midwest: healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, agribusiness, software, business services, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, consumer services, information services, government, education, and nonprofits.
 
MPC brings three differentiators to the market:
  

Data-driven expertise. We dig deep into the data to provide clients solid, reliable advice. For example, MPC maintains an unmatched inventory of publicized data breaches that guides our assistance of clients experiencing information incidents. We maintain a database of Fortune 500 privacy and security policies, data element classifications, and privacy and security metrics.  We also sponsor the annual Best Privacy Advisers survey.  Through the Privacy Consortium, we also tap into a network of pre-qualified privacy consultants with offices across all regions of the United States, Canada, the UK, continental Europe, and Australia. 
Global CPO experience. Chief privacy officers routinely must balance budget constraints, opposing legal requirements, cultural and bureaucratic barriers, and client demands. Even experienced consultants who have never walked in the CPO's shoes tend to offer theoretical and unnecessarily comprehensive solutions. In contrast, MPC's President is a former CPO of a Fortune 500 multinational. As a result, MPC's solutions are targeted, practical, and innovative.
We live your business. We love the Midwest, its companies, and its culture. We patronize and know your business. We use Deluxe small-business services and use MoneyGram for money transfers. We buy our computer equipment at Best Buy and our office supplies at Target. We bank at Wells Fargo, US Bank, and TCF, hold our retirement accounts at Ameriprise, and insure through Medica and United Health. We patronize Select Comfort and Gander Mountain, and prefer consumer goods made by Cargill, General Mills, Toro, 3M. We donate to local charities and universities.  By living your business, our projects can hit the ground running.

Leadership

Jay Cline, President of Minnesota Privacy Consultants, is a former chief privacy officer of Carlson Companies, IT management consultant at EDS, and international trade-law expert in the U.S. Government. Cline, a Certified Information Privacy Professional, has held leadership positions in the International Association of Privacy Professionals, is a privacy columnist for Computerworld and INSIDE 1to1: Privacy, and was the winner of the 2005 Barbara Wellbery Memorial Award, an international privacy essay contest.  His work has appeared in several business publications, and he is a regular speaker on information risk management.
In 2006, Cline founded the Twin Cities Privacy Network,
(www.twincitiesprivacy.com
), the area's first privacy association. For a list of Cline's articles and presentations, click here.

In March 2009, Jay Cline received the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal "40 Under Forty" award.


 
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