Comments on: University of Miami Breach http://blog.absolute.com/university-of-miami-breach/ Laptop Security blog by Absolute Software Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: George http://blog.absolute.com/university-of-miami-breach/comment-page-1/#comment-7301 George Wed, 07 May 2008 11:13:57 +0000 http://blog.absolute.com/university-of-miami-breach/#comment-7301 On what basis can they decide to only notify those whose financial data has been affected? If this happened in Europe everyone affected regardless as to what type of data whould have to be informed. Has HIPPA no teeth? It would appear that outside of the state of California, the US has a dangerously lax attitude to data protection and compliance auditing and enforcement. This may explain why so many US businesses are now backing up in the Eurozone. http://www.backupanytime.com On what basis can they decide to only notify those whose financial data has been affected?
If this happened in Europe everyone affected regardless as to what type of data whould have to be informed. Has HIPPA no teeth? It would appear that outside of the state of California, the US has a dangerously lax attitude to data protection and compliance auditing and enforcement.
This may explain why so many US businesses are now backing up in the Eurozone.

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