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Adding some class to Information Governance (Part 1)
By Peter Sloan
When governing information, it works well to identify and bundle rules (for legal compliance, risk, and value), identify and bundle information (by content and context), and then attach the rule…
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What if companies treated their money like their information?
By Peter Sloan
I’m here at RabbitHole, Inc., talking with the company’s Manager of Money in his office, which is buried in the Facilities Department, down in the building’s basement. I’m interviewing him…
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HIPAA compliance: another year older, but hopefully not deeper in debt
By Deb Hiser
My New Year’s resolutions will likely be broken early and often in 2016. My consequences are mostly non-monetary: a few more pounds, a little less savings, and not winning the…
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Information Governance in 2015 – did we learn anything?
By Peter Sloan
2015 was quite a year for Information Governance, and it’s now time for a year-end post. I've neither the prescience nor patience for making predictions, and after briefly flirting with…
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I’m making a list, securing it twice…
For those who observe it, the Christmas season (secular version 2.0) is definitely here. As a child, I cherished the thought of a man with a red suit accessing our…
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FTC v. LifeLock — sorry Virginia, there is no Security Claus
By Peter Sloan
Today the FTC announced a $100-million settlement of its most recent data security lawsuit against LifeLock, the ubiquitous B2C provider of credit monitoring and identity theft protection to consumers. Despite years…
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Cops or Robbers: PHI, the IRS and IRDs
HIPAA and the IRS. There isn’t a whole lot of guidance out there about what to do when the IRS knocks on your organization’s door and asks for protected health…
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Wyndham checks out of FTC dispute
Yesterday the FTC announced it has settled its claims against Wyndham for inadequate data security, with Wyndham signing on to essentially the same consent order used by the FTC in most…
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FTC v. LabMD – 50 shades of white hat
By Peter Sloan, Deborah Juhnke
The FTC has pursued enforcement actions against more than 50 companies for inadequate data security, and to date only two, Wyndham Hotels and LabMD, have pushed back. On the heels of…
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Target update: Happy holidays for banks
By Meghan Rohlf
Talk about a “bank holiday” – under a settlement deal filed in court yesterday, Target will pay $39.4 million to a litigation class of banks and credit unions to settle…