Making Privacy Best Practices Achievable
It is critical in today's business environment to implement privacy best practices. Privacy and security breaches shake consumer and employee trust in the organizations that hold their personal information. PrivaTech's mission is to support its clients in building privacy conscious environments. Choose PrivaTech to help you achieve that goal and manage your privacy risks.
Complying with Privacy Laws
With a unique blend of legal, technical and consulting expertise, PrivaTech is dedicated to developing effective privacy solutions that work for your business. PrivaTech specializes in advising organizations on compliance with privacy laws in Canada (such as PIPEDA, the Privacy Act and provincial privacy laws), the United States (such as the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, HIPAA and breach notification laws), as well as other data protection laws around the world.
Our focus on using effective adult learning techniques to raise awareness of employee responsibilities when handling personal information, has helped numerous organizations avoid a privacy breach.
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NEWS
December 18, 2009
Facebook's Privacy Problems Escalate
Facebook recently rolled out a new privacy protocol that it promoted as giving users more control over privacy settings. With the controls, users can decide whether to make certain aspects of their Facebook profiles publicly available on the Internet, or only available to friends. But the controls were limited, and certain elements, such as the friends list, were made public by default. As originally released, users had no way to change that setting. After a swell of criticism, Facebook allowed users to make their friends list private.
Facebook's privacy problem is getting worse. Not only is the dominant social-networking company facing on-going public outcry, but now it faces a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Training Sign-Up
The Five Critical Steps to Avoiding a Privacy Breach. Is your business...EXPOSED? Learn how to avoid the five biggest mistakes that lead to privacy and information security breaches...
On-line Webinars: Spring 2010
In-person Seminar (Toronto): March 2, 2010
Privacy Templates CD-ROM
PrivaTech's CD-ROM of templates and tools will help you meet your privacy responsibilities. The policies and procedures contained on the CD can be easily customized, and are needed by any organization that collects personally identifiable information, regardless of size, industry or jurisdiction. Demonstrate your commitment to privacy by having the right documentation in place.
TESTIMONIAL
InfoMedics Inc.:
Lou MacDonald, CFO and CPO: “In a proactive effort to improve privacy protection within our organization, we engaged PrivaTech’s services to conduct a full privacy assessment of our operations. Fazila’s expertise, professionalism and sound business judgement led us in identifying gaps and minimizing risks in our information handling practices.”
