| Transforming Privacy in America |
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Nearly everyone in today's world is concerned about identity theft, protecting personal privacy, and ensuring that sensitive information is kept safe and secure. Yet many organizations do not take reasonable and appropriate legal steps to safeguard sensitive information through privacy compliance and privacy best practices. Every enterprise is subject to state, federal and industry regulations that require safeguarding sensitive information and protecting the privacy of clients, customers, employees, patrons and other stakeholders. For example, the Federal FACT Act Red Flags Rule applies to over 10 million enterprises, and the Disposal Rule applies to as many as 25 million. If you operate a business or a not-for-profit organization, or if you have responsibility for protecting records in a school or in the public sector, you and your organization are subject to serious penalties and a host of liabilities if sensitive information is compromised by your enterprise. Most regulations provide what is known as safe harbor. Safe harbor is a provision that reduces or eliminates liability in the event of a privacy or information breach as long as reasonable and appropriate steps to com ply with prevailing regulations and guidelines were taken in good faith. Privacy MakeOver is a do-it-yourself guide to privacy best practices, which most enterprises can seamlessly and inexpensively integrate into everyday operations. Privacy MakeOver is filled with practical step-by-step guidelines, checklists, and thousands of dollars worth of policy and other top-level compliance document templates. Author Joseph E. Campana, Ph.D., a certified privacy and identity theft risk management professional, guides you through a simple, four-step privacy best practices process with the goal of you achieving a privacy-friendly transformation and the protections of safe harbor. When you reach the last page of this book, you can have a base-level privacy compliance program in place by investing a minimum of time and expense. |