Privacy Compliance

Date	Article Title	Publication	Author	Synopsis

7/16/2008	MMA Issues Mobile Privacy Guidelines	Online Media Daily	Mark Walsh	Mobile marketers have a new roadmap for privacy thanks to the Mobile Marketing Association's (MMA) release of new global privacy guidelines earlier this week.
7/15/2008	TRUSTe Responds to Consumer Privacy Threats With Major Expansion	www.truste.org		Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners has invested in privacy protection. The firm completed first-round financing with TRUSTe, the San Francisco-based online privacy monitor and certifier. With the funds, TRUSTe will broaden its market reach and add new services to its existing suite of privacy protection solutions.
7/7/2008	Businesses Falling Short of Privacy Laws	New York Times	Ana Patricia Ferrey	According to a new survey by data protection firm Iron Mountain, a significant number of companies are not familiar with state privacy laws, and nearly one-third were unfamiliar with federal privacy law. According to the New York Times, the survey of 115 privacy professionals found that only 59 percent were confident in their knowledge of their state's privacy laws. The survey was conducted in advance of new, stricter consumer protection provisions under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA).
6/20/2008	Time to update the Privacy Act?	Federal Computer Week	Mary Mosquera	The Privacy Act may be updated, says a Federal Computer Week report. "There is no question that the Privacy Act of 1974 is not up to the realities of 2008 and the Age of Information," said Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
6/10/2008	DOD funds research into info sharing	Government Computer News	William Jackson	Six universities will share a $7.5 million dollar Defense Department (DOD) grant to help agencies find ways to share sensitive information while also ensuring privacy and security of that information.
6/3/2008	Google attacked over privacy policy visibility	cnetnews.com	Anne Broache	The debate concerning the location of Google's privacy policy continues. Yesterday, a coalition of privacy advocate groups sent a letter to the company's CEO questioning the conspicuousness of its policy.
6/2/2008	California Privacy Chief Says Google Should Improve Disclosure	New York Times	Saul Hansell	Saul Hansell's quest to interpret California's Online Privacy Protection Act continues. The law mandates that commercial Web site operators post their privacy policies conspicuously on their homepage or on the first significant page users reach after entering a Web site.
5/30/2008	Is Google Violating a California Privacy Law?	New York Times	Saul Hansell	In his New York Times blog, Saul Hansell looks into California's Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, which mandates operators of commercial Web sites to post their privacy policies on the homepage of their sites, or on the first significant page after entering the Web site.
5/28/2008	Histradrut, employers draft agreement over employee computer privacy	Haaretz	Ruth Sinai	Labor and employer organizations have come to consensus on the degree of privacy employees should have while using a workplace computer, and on what access employers should be permitted.
5/28/2008	Technical Working Group Studying RP Data Privacy Bills	INQUIRER.net	Erwin Oliva	The consensus at a recent Philippines technical working group meeting was that the nation adopt the European Union framework on data privacy when developing data privacy bills, says a report on Inquirer.net.
5/16/2008	Data Shuffling as a way to protect privacy	Network World	Alpha Doggs	Oklahoma State University's Technology Business Assessment Group has provided $100,000 to fund a project aimed at protecting the privacy of online data using the data shuffling method. The project, "Developing Data Protection Software Based on Data Shuffling," involves faculty researchers from OSU and the University of Kentucky.
5/12/2008	Proposed Privacy rules rile small brokerage firms	Investment News	Bruce Kelly	Proposed changes to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Regulation S-P have small and independent-contractor brokerage firms feeling overburdened and worried for their futures.
4/15/2008	IBM proposes global security organization	Washington Technology	Alice Lipowicz	Tech giant IBM's public sector consulting group says a global security watchdog organization is needed to provide increased protection to people and infrastructure worldwide.
3/10/2008	Changing a mindset: Audits are no longer one-off events	SC Magazine	Bryan Cote	Time was, security audits were infrequent, imprecise and protracted affairs. Today, however, companies can expect to be audited on a more regular basis and, depending on their line of business, for compliance with multiple regulations, such as HIPAA, GLBA and other legal and industry standards.
2/28/2008	NZ Privacy Commish Wants Mandatory Breach Notice	Computer World	Staff Writer	New Zealand Privacy Commissioner Marie Schroff is in favor of implementing a mandatory data breach notice, even though her office recently finalized a set of recommendations for voluntary notice.
2/27/2008	FTC Chair Majoras to Step Down	The Wall Street Journal	Martinne Geller	In a report broken by The Wall Street Journal and reported by Reuters, insiders have said Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras will resign from her post next month to accept a position as vice president and general counsel at consumer products giant Procter & Gamble.
2/26/2008	Opinion: Feds Don't Practice The Privacy They Preach	Information Week	George Hulme	George Hulme, writing for InformationWeek's Security Weblog says that federal agencies talk a good game when it comes to privacy, writing rules and regulations for private industry to follow, but when it comes to walking the walk, government falls short of the mark.
2/26/2008	FTC Content To Observe Impact Of IAB Guidelines	ClickZ.com	Kate Kaye	According to ClickZ, the Federal Trade Commission has opted to take a "wait and see" approach to new privacy guidelines put forth by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The IAB's guidelines touch broadly on five areas of concern to the FTC, including notice, collection, use, security and accountability.
2/12/2008	Interactive Map Tracks Progress Of Privacy Laws	CSO Magazine	Scott Berinato	CSO Magazine has published an article on the progress of data breach notification laws in the U.S., including an interactive map that allows the reader to click on a state and see whether or not the state has a law either on the books or pending, along with a summary of the law's provisions.
1/30/2008	TRUSTe, Ponemon Name 2007's Most Trusted Companies	marketwire.com	Morgan McDowell	Privacy seal program administrator TRUSTe, along with privacy and data security think-tank Ponemon Institute this week announced that HP, Inuit and AOL were found to be the three "most trusted companies for privacy" for 2007.
1/21/2008	OMB To Review Federal Agency Compliance Records	Federal Computer Week	Mary Mosquera	The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans this year to begin reviewing the privacy compliance records of federal agencies under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
1/18/2008	Information Commissioner's Office Investigates Facebook	BBC News	Chris Vallance	The BBC reports that the Information Commissioner's Office will look into complaints by former Facebook users who said they were unable to entirely delete their profiles after quitting the social networking utility.
1/17/2008	New Hampshire Balks At Product Tracking Bill	New Hampshire Business Review		A bill that would require New Hampshire stores to post warnings to consumers over the presence of RFID chips on products or packaging within stores has been sent to committee for further study.
1/16/2008	Arizona Names Joublanc State's CPO	Government Technology	News Report	Mary Beth Joublanc, a lawyer with more than thirty years' experience in healthcare, compliance, and risk management, has been appointed to serve as chief privacy officer for the State of Arizona.
1/15/2008	Advocates And Activists Protest RFID Baby IDs	World Net Daily	Jerome Corsi	Privacy and anti-RFID activists in Ohio are expressing concern over the proliferation of RFID in the state's birthing centers, where more than half of facilities now use radio-chipped identification bracelets to prevent abductions and mix-ups.
1/14/2008	Speier To Run For Lantos' Congressional Seat	San Francisco Chronicle	Marisa Lagos	Following the announced retirement of 14-term Congressman Tom Lantos, who is battling esophageal cancer, former state Senator Jackie Speier will vie for the Democratic nomination to replace Lantos in California's 12th District.
12/30/2007	Scholars Discuss Privacy In The Information Age	NPR		James Rule, the author of Privacy in Peril, and a scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at University of California-Berkeley, joins Kathryn Montgomery, a professor at American University's School of Communication, for a discussion on privacy and how to safeguard it.
12/16/2007	2007 Brings Internet Privacy Into Focus	The Sunday Times	Dominic Rushe	In response to criticism about data retention policies and online privacy, the major search engines have tightened up their privacy policies in the past year
12/11/2007	United Kingdom: New Guidance On What Constitutes "Personal Data"	Mondaq	Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP	The Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") has recently issued technical guidance, entitled "Data Protection Technical Guidance: Determining what is personal data" ("the Guidance") for data protection purposes.
12/11/2007	Security Firm Predicts 2008 Will Be The Year Of The iPhone Attacks	vnunet.com	Robert Jaques	Cybercriminals will focus their efforts on hacking into the popular iPhone, according to security company Arbor Network. The firm predicts that the assaults are likely to take place as the result of malware embedded secretly into images or other media that does damage on the iPhone's Web browser.
12/10/2007	Security Experts: Managing Risk Drives Security Strategy	vnunet.com	Clement James	More than 70 percent of the senior security personnel who attended a recent CSO Interchange in London said that securing their networks is harder than ever.
12/7/2007	New Law Would Require CEO To Certify Data Protection Safeguards	The Times	Rhys Blakely	Changes in UK data protection laws are likely to face fierce opposition from companies that collect and store large amounts of personal data.
12/4/2007	12 Questions For The Board Of Directors	Internet Business Law Services	Mark Foley	A dozen questions for board oversight of data privacy and security.
11/26/2007	Opinion: The New Urgent Threats To Privacy	Forbes.com	Robert Ellis Smith	Privacy Journal Publisher Robert Ellis Smith writes a regular column on privacy for the Web site forbes.net. In this column, he reveals the meaning of the new buzz words in the surveillance world: uberveillance, pervasive computing, ingestible bugs, ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, human-area networking, "community of interests," biobanking and nanotechnology.
11/20/2007	Industry Experts Discuss Need For Privacy, Security Officers To Collaborate	searchsecurity.com	Bill Brenner	During the recent (ISC)2 SecureBoston conference, industry experts stressed the importance of aligning the privacy and security resources within an organization -- especially in the area of devising an effective breach response plan.
11/13/2007	Employers Play Hard Ball With At-Risk Workers	The Washington Post	Beth Baker	Recent attempts by many companies to control healthcare costs have led to policies that are raising eyebrows among privacy advocates and employees.
11/7/2007	Data Audit Market Benefits From Compliance Demands	eweek.com	Brian Prince	The value of the database auditing and real-time protection market is estimated to be about $450 million -- a figure expected to double by 2010, according to a recent Forrester report, "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing and Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007."
10/24/2007	Firms Still Behind in Managing Privacy Compliance, Says Survey	bernama.com		More firms in Malaysia will recognize the importance of privacy compliance and data protection as public awareness of the issue expands, according to Jason Yuen, Information Technology Security Director for Deloitte Malaysia's Enterprise Risk Services Group.
9/20/2007	Privacy Fears Behind Attempts To Pass Anti-RFID Legislation	Computer World	Matt Hamblen	Speakers addressed the impact of concern over RFID tagging and the impact on legislative efforts to restrict uses of the technology during RFID World: Boston. An industry trade group representative from the American Electronics Association said that RFID and privacy "are taken very seriously in state governments across the U.S."

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