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Civilians Ask Whats With All the Privacy Act Kerfluffle?

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2008-06-26 21:51:41 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...Act from DOJ for background reasons Well, lets talk about how privacy and the Government works with Uncle Rybolov (please hold the references to Old Weird Uncle Harold until were through with todays lesson please We have a law, the Privacy Act of 1974. Think about it, what significant privacy-wrenching activities happened just a couple of...
 
Tags: privacy act, privacy act procedures, privacy act deals, privacy act data, privacy, data, data lies, privacy act talks, privacy policy
 
 
 
 
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Federal Information Security and Management Act -- Five Years On

2007-12-18 02:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Act (FISMA) just completed its fifth year on the books as a federal law As the follow up to the Government Information Security Act of 2000, FISMA established an updated legal framework for federal information security, including baseline security standards for federal agencies. I remember that the information security community was excited...
 
Tags: federal information security, management act, fisma, baseline security standards, information security community, mixed bag, federal law, focus, legal framework
 
 
 
 
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UK's Information Commissioner gets expanded powers in Criminal Justice and Immigration Act -- will be able to impose steep fines on organizations

2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Act", or DPA, of 1998. In a little noticed amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008, the 1998 DPA was updated to enable the Information Commissioner to impose serious fines on organizations. This change in the UK's data protection law was spurred by a string of high-profile breaches of personally-identifiable information...
 
Tags: information commissioner, information, fines, immigration act, criminal justice, organizations, levy fines, data protection act, large-scale data breach
 
 
 
 
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Department of Health broke Data Protection Act

2007-12-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8983334 in Network World on Security
 
The Department of Health broke the Data Protection Act through security failings on its Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) Web site which exposed the personal details of junior doctors
 
Tags: data protection act, department, application service, junior doctors, personal details, health, web site, security failings, mtas
 
 
 
 
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Security Policy Considerations for the Junk FAX Prevention Act

2007-12-27 08:56:05 by Editor in Information Security Policy Whitepapers
 
New FCC rules for the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005 have changed the way organizations must handle outbound customer communications via FAX technology. In this article we look at the main provisions of the recent ruling and suggest some audits of your information security policies that may help reduce the risk of violating the new FAX...
 
Tags: information security policies, fax requirements, fcc rules, main provisions, fax technology, audits, organizations, article, recent
 
 
 
 
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Credit Card Protections Abroad

2008-10-10 10:59:08 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...act with assumed that credit cards were smart cards with readable chips. This adds another level of security, and PINs were required as well. When I was in The Netherlands a few months ago, I couldnt even use my American credit card on the ticket machines for their train system With all of the credit card fraud going on, I wonder when the US...
 
Tags: credit card, credit card customs, american credit card, card, credit card fraud, credit card readers, rsa blog recently, restaurant, train system
 
 
 
 
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Computer Misuse in Scotland

2008-02-14 20:25:22 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Act 1990 would not be amended until April 2008 because the amendments introduced in the Police and Justice Act 2006 were themselves to be amended by the Serious Crime Act 2007 , and that was not expected to come into force until then. Also, right at the end of 2007 the CPS published their guidance on how these new offences might be...
 
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Williamson County Schools learns of breach reported nine months ago

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2008-07-13 00:12:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...actor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Students 3,052 ACT students and 2,117 students who took the second grade test were affected", Source: Student Information News Conference Text 7/11/08 Number Affected 5,169 Types of Data Names, testing scores, and Social Security numbers Breach Description FRANKLIN, Tenn.- It now appears a security...
 
Tags: school, school students, schools, williamson county schools, williamson county, county, breach, school authorities, school district
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...ACT only when bad news hits the roof and at the point we dont ACT pragmatically since we did not plan for it! We recently attended a friends daughters birthday party. Before heading to the party, I printed out the driving directions from the Internet. hit the freeway in the south direction, when the exit arrived found that the exit ramp was...
 
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