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Privacy 101- Insider Information Exposure

Do your technology policies match the reality of your business needs? Do those policies safeguard the sensitive data such as customer and employee information, company financials and intellectual property that staff members need to access in the daily course of business? How do you minimize your risk of exposing that data through carelessness, working around a security measure, or inadequate security policies?
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Privacy 101- That Little Black Box

Are you someone who never drives anywhere without their little black box? That four inch square black box that is a standard feature in many new cars is an event data recorder (EDR).
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Privacy 101- More Email Essentials

So what about email is private? Certainly not anything you send to another person.
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Privacy 101- Safe Cyber Shopping

Are you contributing to the $33 or so billion that will be spent online for holiday shopping this year? If so, read this.
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Privacy 101- Handy Holiday Hints

To make sure your holiday season is merry and bright, the Privacy Gurus® would like to give you the gift of practical ways to protect yourself from criminals.
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Privacy 101- Medical Identity Theft

Just like effective health care, effective privacy protection depends on self care, particularly when it comes to your medical records.
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Identity Theft 2.0

Everyone is talking about Web 2.0 – interaction with your website visitors, but what about Identity Theft 2.0???
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Exposing Your Data

Getting the message out about what is going on somewhere other than where you are has evolved over the centuries.
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Telephone Scams on the Rise

The phone rings and you screen your call as usual. As you hear the message, a feeling of dread grows in the pit of your stomach. The young sounding American Red Cross representative says he needs to speak with you about your spouse...
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What to do About Security Breach Notification

It can be quite an unnerving moment to open a legal sized envelope from a company you do business with and discover a security breach notice inside.
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What You need on Your Website

If you had to have only four things on your website, what would your Privacy Guru® suggest?
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For Credit and Debit Card Users Only

When was the last time you used your credit or debit card? That is not a hard question to answer for most of us...
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Copyright/IP Protection: What it is and Why You Need It

©, ™, ®. These little symbols may look small on the printed page, but they speak volumes in the world of business law known as intellectual property...
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What are Biometrics?

A few weeks ago one of our Privacy Gurus® went for a work out at the gym. She was quite shocked to find a new high tech entry system in place that included a fingerprint scan...
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Easy Email Encryption

How many email messages do you send in a day? Do you send confidential contracts, sales reports, or sensitive company information in email messages?
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Your Virtual Footprint

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each has their own associations.
-Louis L’Amour
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Privacy and Public Records

The new source of power is not money in the hands of the few but information in the hands of many.
-John Naisbitt
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Bluejacking, Bluebugging, and Bluesnarfing...What?

You need to be aware that your Bluetooth® connection can be vulnerable to intruders if certain precautions are not taken.
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Privacy and Your Credit Card

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
-Wiliam Blackstone
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Privacy 101- Back to School

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
-Jane Addams
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Don't Get Reeled in by Vishers

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
-William Graham Sumner
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How to Protect a House of Data

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Privacy and Cell Phones

Homosapien is a compulsive communicator. Look at the number of people you see walking around talking on mobile phones. We seem to have an infinite capacity for communicating and being communicated with.
-David Attenborough
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2005 Privacy Year in Review

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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How to Protect Your Children's Identity

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
-Henry David Thoreau
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Handy Holiday Hints

When you like your work every day is a holiday.
-Frank Tyger
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Privacy 101: Protect Your Privacy

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Privacy 101: Data Security Breaches- Liability Lurking??

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
-Mohandas Gandhi
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Privacy 101: Privacy and the...Post Office?

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends of a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
-Charles Edward Montague
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Privacy 101: Are Your Assets Covered?

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
-Michael LeBoeuf
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Privacy 101: You and Your Social Security Number- What's it all About?

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Privacy 101: What is “Information Security”?

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts..
-William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice
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Privacy 101: What is “Privacy”?

I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned in fact that the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
-Bill Maher
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Privacy 101- Identity Theft
What to Do If It Happens to You

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee…
-Bella Abzug
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Mutual Flourishing…What is that?

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
-Howard Thurman
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How to Succeed in the Online World

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. ... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
-Peter Drucker
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Privacy Policies Online – Something New!

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
-Ronald Reagan
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Web Essentials

By Darity Wesley

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
-Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) French author
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FOR BROKERS: Business Planning
What to Do When...
You want to head off privacy complaints from consumers.
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Intellectual Property and ….Phishing???
by Darity Wesley

Q: Everyone in my office calls themselves realtors. Is realtor a generic term for real estate agent?
A: The only real estate agent who has the privilege of calling herself a REALTOR® is a bona fide member of the National Association of REALTORS®. Read More

The Ethical Real Estate Professional
by Darity Wesley

You may or may not have noticed that the real estate industry suffers from an image problem. That problem is one that haunts real estate professionals from the newbie to the seasoned broker. It is the public’s view of our ethical character as a group. Read More

Can CAN-SPAM Can Spam?
by Darity Wesley

As privacy industry leaders have predicted for the last several years, government regulation for commercial electronic mail messages (CEMMs) is here. The new federal law entitled Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, commonly referred to as CAN-SPAM, became effective the first of this year. This act pre-empts all State laws regarding commercial email, though State laws covering falsity or deception still apply alongside similar provisions in the Act. Read More

Spam vs. Commercial Email Marketing
The High Road
by Darity Wesley

Consumers have received unsolicited purchasing opportunities for as long as enterprise and commerce have been around. Medieval peddlers to traveling traders to door to door salesmen to direct mail to commercial email have kept up the continuity of the tradition of direct marketing. Direct marketing has, on the one hand, educated the public about new products they would not have otherwise had access to and, on the other hand, taken the brunt of consumer ire when used irresponsibly by a small percentage of unscrupulous scammers. Read More

Privacy and the Workplace
by Darity Wesley

In the office environment, employers must be aware that an associates "expectation of privacy" in their computer, their desk, their cubicle or office, among many other things, is an area of growing concern for employees and liability for employers. A business's internal "privacy" policy and practice needs to be clear, outlined and signed off by your associates. If you do not have a stated privacy policy and practice, you should establish one at your earliest convenience, no matter how many associates you have. Read More

Privacy and the Real Estate Industry
by Darity Wesley

As you have probably noticed, privacy and information security are hot topics. So hot that the country’s leading professionals are discovering that the increase in the use and integration of technology in the real estate industry brings privacy, security and real estate together in a very large way. And as every successful agent and broker knows, information, particularly personally identifiable information, is a very valuable commodity and becoming more precious daily. Read More