Due to the broad data/information collection, review, and retention provisions of the USA Patriot Act, RIM professionals have expressed concern about the risks to privacy rights and confidentiality when Canadian organizations store e-mails (and other cloud-based data) on servers in the United States. Recent developments suggest the Government of Canada (GoC) shares their concern when
Police are investigating after some of the confetti at last week’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York City was apparently produced from the confidential records of the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD).
Parade spectators reported seeing confidential information such as Social Security and license plate numbers, names of NCPD officers, information from arrest records, and even information about a motorcade for Mitt Romney when he was the Republican presidential candidate in the confetti that littered the streets after the parade. From photos in the many, many news reports on this topic, it appears the confidential confetti was in the form of paper shreds from a strip-cut shredder instead of the more secure paper particles that a cross-cut shredder would produce.
Sheila Taylor is a well known consultant, educator, speaker and writer with more than 25 years of experience in the information management (IM) field.
Ergo Information Management Consulting provides product-independent advisory services to assist organizations in managing and controlling their information.
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