Privacy Makeover: The Essential Guide to Best Practices: How to Protect Assets and Foster Consumer Loyalty

Privacy MakeOver is a do-it-yourself guide to privacy best practices, which most small enterprises can seamlessly and inexpensively integrate into everyday business practices. It is filled with practical step-by-step guidelines, checklists, and thousands of dollars worth of policy and other top-level compliance document templates. Every enterprise is subject to more than one state, federal or industry regulation to protect sensitive information and the privacy of customers, clients, constituents, employees, and stakeholders. For example, the FACT Act Red Flags Rule applies to well over 10 million enterprises, and the Disposal Rule applies to as many as 25 million. If you operate a business or a not-for-profit organization, or if you have responsibility for protecting records in a school setting or in local government, you are subject to serious penalties and a host of liabilities if sensitive information is compromised by your enterprise. Most regulations provide what is known as safe harbor. Safe harbor is a provision that reduces or eliminates liability in the event of a privacy breach as long as reasonable and appropriate steps to comply with prevailing regulations and guidelines were taken in good faith. Author Joseph E. Campana, Ph.D., a certified privacy and identity theft risk management professional, guides you through a simple, four-step privacy best practices process with the goal of a privacy-friendly transformation to achieve the protection of safe harbor. When you reach the last page of this book, you can have a reasonable and appropriate privacy compliance program in place by investing a minimum of time and expense.