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.
The Privacy Documentation Suite CD-ROM
PrivaTech's new CD of templates and tools will help you meet your privacy responsibilities. The documents 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. CLICK HERE for more information on the CD contents and to place your order.
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.
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NEWS
August 27, 2008
Breaches Cost $1.25 Million/Year in Canada
A recent survey reveals that Canadian companies and government organizations collectively lose $1.25 million annually, on average, to security breaches. Nearly a quarter of firms in Canada are dissatisfied with their own security policies. The survey, conducted by the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and Telus Corp., covered 300 private, publicly-traded and government organizations across the country.
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July 18, 2008
Google and Viacom Reach Privacy Agreement
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in New York ordered Google to give Viacom detailed records about YouTube users, including their screen names, IP addresses and videos viewed. Viacom had requested the information as part of its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's YouTube. The judge clearly didn't understand or pay any heed to privacy. Thankfully, Google and Viacom are being responsive to widespread international privacy concerns. On July 14th, Google and Viacom signed an agreement whereby Google will be allowed to anonymize data that otherwise could identify individual YouTube users, while still complying with the court's order.
Seminar Sign-Up
September 24th, 2008 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Toronto: 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...
Download Articles
You can't reduce your risks of privacy or security breaches until you've identified them! PrivaTech's article entitled "Conducting an Effective Internal Privacy Audit" provides practical advice to get you started.
TESTIMONIAL
Common Collection Agency Inc.:
"When we had a privacy problem that was affecting our business, we fortunately contacted PrivaTech. Practical solutions were implemented that we would never have thought of ourselves."
