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Legislating Social Privacy
July 30, 2010
There’s a great deal of talk these days about privacy and social media. Specifically, services like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social networking platforms are coming under increased scrutiny over their privacy policies and data sharing practices. Permalink

When Privileged Access is no longer a Privilege
July 19, 2010
I just read an interesting multi-part investigative report in the Washington Post about how intelligence gathering – and the bureaucracy that has risen since September 11, 2001 to facilitate the harvest and analysis of that information – has spun beyond the federal government’s control, not to mention its ability to make use of the sheer abundance of information. Permalink

Information Governance in the Cloud
July 15, 2010
Just a brief note to bring our recent webinar to your attention. I presented Information Governance in the Cloud along with the good people at Symantec. Permalink

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Social Networks Expose Lax Privacy Attitudes

June 14, 2009

Are online social networking utilities, such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other popular services changing privacy rules for companies, as this article in Computerworld suggests, or are the social networking activities of employees simply exposing the poor privacy and security habits of companies?

The Ponemon Institute asked respondents about their social networking habits in our most recent study, Trends in Insider Compliance with Data Security Policies and learned that, while 31% of employees said they access social networking sites while in the workplace, and 34% of those individuals said they have shared information about their place of employment on social networking sites, only 10% said their employer had a written social networking policy.

These findings are consistent with our observation of organizational response to privacy and data security risks in that they show how companies’ policies often lag behind changes to the security environment.

The Ponemon Institute believes that social networking can be a useful and powerful tool for individuals and organizations who consider their strategic value and take thoughtful, necessary precautions to their use. Without concern for their impact on information security, however, companies that ignore the risks will almost certainly suffer consequences.

Posted by Susan Jayson at 5:20 pm

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