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.

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.