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Promises, Promises
Mark Rasch, 2003-07-07

Most online businesses promise they'll protect customer data as if it were their own. Now the government is holding them to it.

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We know this, does management? 2003-07-07
http://www.attackprevention.com (1 replies)
Lots of security shops have been aware of this type of "Privacy Policy" false advertisements, but its hard to get management buy in to put a more realistic (and complicated) explanation of security expectations out for customers to see. Maybe this will help gain management support for either (1) mo...

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We know this, does management? 2003-07-09
Scott Lovrien, CISSP
My past work on "Big 5" attestation engagements taught me how much work and care it takes to avoid the pain experienced by publicly making statements like Guess and hundreds of other online companies presently make. These "statements" I have seen on the web are full of risk because they aren't craf...

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Promises, Promises 2003-07-15
blacklight
There are quite a few cases where an online merchant or service provider will quote you a strict statement just to show how serious they are about respecting your privacy, and then sell your ID data to anyone who will buy. In general, acquiring personal info under false pretenses should be treated t...

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