Posts Tagged ‘ identity theft ’

Disastrous Data Protection Bill Passes House

Dec 14th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Technology

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Data Accountability and Trust At of 2009 (H.R. 2221). Possibly you will remember this train wreck of a bill from previous coverage. To refresh your memory, this piece of legislation does two things. First, it requires businesses that own sensitive consumer data to plan to secure that [...]

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Are You PCI Compliant?

Sep 22nd, 2008 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Operations

In case you didn’t know it, if you accept credit card payments, you need to be in compliance with the data security standards developed by the PCI Security Standards Council. That’s true whether you are a point-of-service merchant who swipes your customers’ credit cards or whether you are an online microbusiness merchant who never sees [...]

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