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PRI100: Establishing and Maintaining a Proactive, Privacy Compliant Corporation

CPE credits: 7

Description: This seminar addresses the emerging global concerns for privacy, both corporate as well as individual. Issues of both national and individual security and safety continue to dominate the strategic decisions and activities of citizens, government officials and corporate strategic planners. The need for more access to personal information, the potential of population profiling and the surrender of greater amounts of personal privacy are increasingly likely. What are the impacts legally, financially, and personally as the possibility of laying bare once coveted private information, is no longer considered or treated as private? This course will examine the process of meeting, maintaining and monitoring the legislative, regulatory, and marketplace expectations and demands of personal and corporate information privacy.

Audience: This seminar is intended for Chief Technology Officers, General Counsels, Chief Information Officers, Chief Security Officers, Controllers, Chief Privacy Officers, acting Privacy Officers, and/or those responsible for choosing Privacy Officers, internal and external audit professionals who want to learn about current and emerging privacy issues facing today's businesses.

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisite for this seminar.

Objectives: After completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

Identify relevant laws addressing personal privacy and privacy in the workplace
Define privacy and establish guidelines for developing internal privacy policies and procedures
Establish an internal privacy task force
Assess data collection, classification, and sharing practices
Identify risk and benefits of third-party audits and external certification programs
Establish on-going audit strategies for privacy compliance
Understand global privacy and data protection laws and how they affect your business
Implement 10 Steps to Plug Personal Information Leaks
Identify your organization's plan to comply with global privacy regulations, yet remain competitive in the marketplace

Course Outline:

Introduction

· Privacy Concepts and Definition.

Privacy Initiatives

· What is being done to address the issue of privacy (personal and corporate), and who is doing what?

Privacy Advocates - Domestic Based

· Examine organizations, groups, associations and resources aimed at tackling the issues of emerging privacy concerns.

International Privacy Issues/Concerns

· Examine organizations, groups, associations, resources, and national government initiatives aimed at tackling the emerging issue of individual and national privacy.

Privacy Legislation

· An examination of the growing body of laws directed at legislating privacy, and the impact on the organization.

Personal Privacy and National Security

· A discussion of issues and concerns to individual privacy in the wake of 9/11/01 terrorist attacks.

Business Privacy Issues

· Legal implications/ramifications, employee monitoring, technological surveillance, etc.

Personal Privacy Issues

· ID Theft, employer spying, ethics, profiling, etc.

Privacy Tools

· An examination of the various "tools" available to detect and deter Net privacy problems.

Establishing Privacy Controls

· Establishing controls to verify company compliance to privacy policies and regulations.

Privacy Impact Assessment

· A privacy impact assessment is a crucial tool for the data protector. The idea is to require the preparation of a privacy impact assessment for new products, practices, databases, and systems involving personal information.

Privacy and Health Care

· Medical information is among the most sensitive and personal information collected and shared. Privacy is central to the doctor-patient relationship.

Dr. Marcella's seminar is based on findings from his book, Privacy Handbook: Guidelines, Exposures, Policy Implementation, and International Issues, published by John Wiley & Sons.

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