Electronic Information Privacy – Securing Your Job: Part I

Electronic information privacy will eventually be one of the criteria on your job performance review. In fact, it’s not just electronic data that you should be concerned about, but all data. If you are an employee or executive at a corporation, association, university or small business, you must realize that protecting organizational data is vital not only to your company’s profitability, but to your job security. If it isn’t right now, it will be soon.

As a company employee or business leader, it is essential that you clearly understand the relationship between identity theft, data breach and your bottom line.  One of the costliest data security mistakes I see executives make is that they initially approach data privacy from the perspective of the company. They don’t recognize the following reality: All privacy is personal. It’s not electronic information privacy. It’s not physical data privacy. It’s personal.

In other words, many people in your organization won’t care about data security, privacy policies, intellectual property protection or data breach until they understand what it has to do with them. If employees and executives don’t care about protecting their own identities (to prevent identity theft), how can you expect them to care about protecting corporate identity (to prevent data breach)? Like the emergency oxygen masks on a de-pressurized airplane, you’d better put your own on first or you’ll be worthless to those around you. Protecting yourself first isn’t self-centered; it’s effective and educational. Information Privacy Training begins at the human level and expands outwards to the group level. And it is not technical by nature.

Posted in Business, Identity Theft by Identity Theft Speaker John Sileo.

Tags: Electronic Information Privacy, Electronic Information Privacy Center, Information Privacy Act, John Sileo Identity theft Expert