Posts Tagged “Personal Information”

A personal information access request allows an individual the right to view or obtain a copy of some types of personal information that your organization has collected.

A Canadian office supply store Staples is undergoing scrunity after selling a hard-drive on clearance containing the personal files of a Carleton University political science professor who returned the hard drive to the store earlier.
This is similar to last month’s post: Is Your Personal Information Safe in a Weak Economy? — except Staples has no [...]

The weak economy means businesses are cutting costs just to survive the downturn. That means that extra money that may have been spent on data security or the protection of personal information may be overlooked when compared to other expenses that a business needs to incur.

Learn how to properly request access to a copy of your personal information from organizations subject to PIPEDA.

The Financial Times featured an article today entitled: Privacy will end in 2013.
I don’t know the lead researcher, Alex Fuss, neither am I familiar with the organization he represents, but the article does provide some interesting thoughts. Here are some of them:
What will business IT look like in 2013?
Social power will enable businesses to solve [...]

One thing that all retail establishments have in common is that they face the ongoing problem of combating return fraud.
This especially affects those businesses with extremely lenient return policies and whose inventory always changes or is priced differently from the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP). When inventory always changes, it is difficult to monitor [...]

Personal information is defined in a much broader sense; it includes any information that identifies you as an individual and separates you from …