In recognition of Data Privacy Day, I have produced two videos and have written special feature blogs for the week. Yesterday I posted my first video on this blog to demonstrate

Look at your credit card receipts. Credit card accounts numbers should be truncated to no more than the last five digits-it's the law! The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act required truncation of the credit card number and deletion of the expiration date from ALL credit card receipts not later than December 1, 2006. Merchants who haven't complied have tremendous cumulative liability from that date.

How common is this? A friend just brought me a handful of credit card receipts that customers left behind

During a recent radio interview, I referred to two publicized examples of privacy breaches that involved President Obama and Senator McCain. One involved accessed of their passport records by State Department employees, and the other involved the access of then President-elect Obama's cell phone records by Verizon employees. It is likely that thousands of privacy breaches like these-unauthorized access to personal records of citizens and consumers, occur daily throughout the U.S.

Each of the two responsible organizations responded with corrective action that included the termination of certain employees, disciplinary action of others, and very likely

This is peeve week, maybe because I'm getting cabin fever after several days of being locked away from the sub-zero Midwest weather. So here's another peeve. 

Do employers sponsor programs on "Death and Illness" or do they sponsor "Health and Fitness" or "Wellness" programs? Do insurance professionals sell "Death," or do they sell "Life Insurance?" Do businesses focus on "cooking the books" and accounting fraud and errors, or do they focus on