Privacy software: Who are the early leaders?
Anybody responsible for data privacy soon discovers a hard truth -- privacy compliance is a highly manual undertaking. Whether it's tracking where all of the company's data is or keeping up with...
View ArticleZoomerang vs. SurveyMonkey: Who has the better privacy?
Every time I send out a survey using my Zoomerang or SurveyMonkey accounts, there is always at least one wise guy among the respondents who dings me for risking their privacy with these tools. But do...
View ArticleSurvey: The best privacy advisers of 2010
Who are the best people and firms at providing privacy advice? It's a question I've been asking since 2006, before privacy was cool. Since then, a plethora of new privacy rules and penalties and a...
View ArticleSurvey: The best privacy advisers of 2010
Who are the best people and firms at providing privacy advice? It's a question I've been asking since 2006, before privacy was cool. Since then, a plethora of new privacy rules and penalties and a...
View ArticleiPhone location-tracking incident boosts stock of 'privacy by design'
What does the world's most valuable company now have in common with the following initiatives? * Online-behavioral tracking * Deep-packet inspection * Persistent cookies * Unique microchip...
View ArticleJay Cline: Are medical-data breaches overreported?
The Eli Lilly employee whose programming glitch exposed the e-mail addresses of almost 700 Prozac users to each other didn't know he was making history. Since that day in June 2001, hundreds more US...
View ArticleGoogle and the privacy Richter scale
Last week, Google followed through on its plan to consolidate its 60 privacy policies into a single approach. Some privacy advocates and regulators are worried that Google will now be able to know and...
View Article7 reasons the FTC could audit your privacy program
The Federal Trade Commission's $22.5 million settlement with Google last month over its user-tracking practices woke up enterprise-risk managers around the country. With penalty thresholds hitting this...
View ArticleGlobal winners and losers post-Snowden
Just about everyone assumed all along that the U.S. government makes the most of modern technology to keep an eye on its overseas enemies. The disclosures of former National Security Agency system...
View ArticleJay Cline: What will Snowden leak next?
I've been thinking of Edward Snowden as the anti-CISO. Chief information security officers usually make the case to their boards for more invasive monitoring, tighter policies and more budget. Snowden,...
View ArticleJay Cline: A growing cultural divide on privacy
The first time Computerworld offered me a chance to write a privacy column, in April 2002, I argued that there had been "no terrorism toll on privacy" and laid out three criteria for when there would...
View ArticleJay Cline: Is privacy dead?
The NSA's former general counsel told the world's largest gathering of privacy professionals last year that the privacy laws they're championing are "stupid" and futile. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg...
View ArticleJay Cline: U.S. takes the gold in doling out privacy fines
The European Union is threatening to suspend the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement that U.S. companies depend on to do business with Europe, claiming that America doesn't enforce its side of the bargain....
View ArticleGlobal privacy advisory market topping $3B
How much do companies around the world spend each year on data privacy services to fix the problems we read about in the headlines every day? Nobody as far as I can tell has published an answer to...
View ArticleFive predictions for the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor showdown
The highest authorities on data protection from the European Union’s 28 member nations issued a statement on Oct. 16 declaring that unless the U.S. National Security Agency modifies its surveillance...
View ArticleA privacy standard for Internet of Things suppliers
The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to generate the next economic big bang. But the expected boom will go bust if people worry about losing their privacy in the IoT ecosystem. The time is right for...
View ArticleJay Cline: Is privacy dead?
The NSA's former general counsel told the world's largest gathering of privacy professionals last year that the privacy laws they're championing are "stupid" and futile. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg...
View ArticleJay Cline: U.S. takes the gold in doling out privacy fines
The European Union is threatening to suspend the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement that U.S. companies depend on to do business with Europe, claiming that America doesn't enforce its side of the bargain....
View ArticleGlobal privacy advisory market topping $3B
How much do companies around the world spend each year on data privacy services to fix the problems we read about in the headlines every day? Nobody as far as I can tell has published an answer to...
View ArticleFive predictions for the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor showdown
The highest authorities on data protection from the European Union’s 28 member nations issued a statement on Oct. 16 declaring that unless the U.S. National Security Agency modifies its surveillance...
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