From: Network World
NCSA kicked off Data Privacy Day 2013 with panels of privacy chiefs. The best quote of the entire event was one expert quoting another: “Privacy should be like electricity. You should just be able to expect it will be there.”
By Ms. Smith
Data Privacy Day is great since it highlights both privacy and security. The two topics used to easily be within the same category, but now are often at odds. The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) kicked off Data Privacy Day 2013 with an event at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. that was streamed live on Facebook without requiring login. Privacy professionals from the government and corporate world discussed data stewardship and privacy innovation.
In the keynote address, the FTC’s Maureen Ohlhausen discussed data security, protection enforcement, and policy. In one example, Ohlhausen announced umbilical cord blood bank Cbr Systems settled with the FTC. The charges were that it failed to protect the sensitive personal information of nearly 300,000 consumers when unencrypted backup files were stolen from a backpack left in an employee’s car. Cbr must “establish and maintain a comprehensive information security program and submit to security audits by independent auditors every other year for 20 years.”
“Cbr Systems is a leading provider of umbilical cord blood and umbilical cord tissue banking services. Consumers pay to preserve and store a newborn’s cord blood and cord tissue because they contain stem cells, the use of which researchers are investigating to treat some diseases and conditions,” the FTC announced on its site. “Cbr allegedly created unnecessary risks to personal information by, among other things, transporting backup tapes, a thumb drive, and other portable data storage devices containing personal information in a way that made the information vulnerable to theft.” That information “included, in some cases, the names, gender, Social Security numbers, dates and times of birth, drivers’ license numbers, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates, checking account numbers, addresses, email addresses, telephone number and adoption type (e.g., open, closed, or surrogate) of approximately 298,000 Cbr customers.”
Additionally, the FTC complaint alleged that the “unencrypted Cbr laptop and unencrypted Cbr external hard drive contained network information, including passwords and protocols, that could have permitted an intruder to access Cbr’s network, where sensitive personal health information was stored.” The consent agreement package will be published on the Federal Register.
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