Articles Regarding Miscellaneous Aspects of Privacy

Here are information security and privacy holiday tips that will help you and your information remain safe.

Look into my and other privacy experts' crystal ball for a forecast on 2012's privacy issues.

This report from the IAPP contains forecasts from respected privacy advisors on what they think we can expect in the realm of data privacy. My contribution on pages 4 and 5 discusses Smart Grid technology.

At the end of the first decade of the 21st Century concerns about protecting private information are continually increasing. This white paper that I authored for SAI Global highlights the current privacy landscape.

Don't let unauthorized or unintended exposure of confidential company or customer information compound the consequences of an interruption to your business.

Are you sure that you've identified all of your organization's significant privacy concerns? Performing periodic privacy impact assessments (PIAs) will help highlight major privacy risks. PIAs are as essential to a privacy program as a risk assessment is to an information security program.

This is an update to the September paper; it lists five additional privacy concerns for the Smart Grid (up from 10 in September). I invite your comments on the privacy concerns identified in the article.

This is an excerpt from my contribution to the September SmartGrid draft. You can use the older drafts to trace the development of the document.

How organizations can implement a unified approach to information security and privacy compliance.

This article covers the relationship between privacy and security and the essential relationship of privacy and security programs.

This article provides trends in the new Chief Privacy Officer position.

This article contains a brief privacy self-assessment and advice on creating an organizational privacy plan.

What should you do if you find an unflattering photo of one of your employees on the Internet? Should you fire him or her? I discuss this issue and others regarding the use and trustworthiness of online information about organizations and their employees.

Do you have the right to privacy after you die? Should your loved-ones have access to your personal information?