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NV: School district denies illegal record disposal accusation

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dissent

Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District denied that student records are being disposed illegally, an allegation made recently by information protection professional Tom Considine during his radio show “Who Complys.” Considine said CCSD employees contacted him last year asking about proper disposal of student records, claiming the district dumps special education and psychological…

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Poll: Canadian businesses unconcerned about privacy breach risk

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dissent

Most Canadian companies aren’t concerned about data breaches involving their customers’ personal information — even though these same companies report they are collecting and holding more personal information than ever before, according to the results of a poll released today. The poll conducted by EKOS for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found…

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Asian firms can do more to protect data

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Dissent

Vivian Yeo reports: Despite greater awareness among businesses in Asia on the need to protect data assets, security breaches seem to be on the increase across the region over the past year. Claudio Scarabello, Verizon Business’ senior global product manager for security product marketing, said in an e-mail interview that data breach incidents appeared “to…

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(update) Students’ personal data exposed after USB drive stolen

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dissent

Graham Cluley comments on the stolen USB drive from Lake Ridge Middle School. He draws the same inference I did — that because there is no mention that the drive was encrypted, he assumes it wasn’t. And…. wait for it…. it was stolen from a school official’s car. Speaking of school data breaches, I learned…

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Study: ITRC Encouraged by 2009 Victim Aftermath Study

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Dissent

The Identity Theft Resource Center has released its annual Aftermath study.  From their press release: For the first time in 7 years, The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)® can state that it is encouraged by the findings of the Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2009™.  It is becoming clear that some areas of great distress in…

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DIA official says privacy, security different for cloud

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Dissent

Stephen Bell reports: The government may have to make sacrifices in such treasured concepts as privacy and sovereignty, so that public sector organisations can take advantage of the “convenience” of the cloud, says a Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) project manager. Adam Stapleton is managing a project for DIA’s Government Technology Services (GTS) arm, to…

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