Tag Archives: personally identifiable information

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all

 Joni Mitchell, “Both Sides Now”

Until recently, many cloud users felt like Joni Mitchell in her classic song, “Both Sides Now.” No matter how you looked at clouds,… More

You may have missed it, because it came without fanfare and does not seem to have made the data security trade press, but in early May, the State of Vermont updated its data security law. In particular, these revisions to 9 V.S.A. chapter 62 do the following:

1. change the information protected to “personally identifiable information” (it was formerly “personal information”);
2. exclude from the definition of “security breach” …

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The Department of Homeland Security has released its latest update to its internal guide to handling personally identifiable information.  The "Handbook for Safeguarding Sensitive PII at DHS" has been around since 2008; even if you do not have direct dealings with DHS, it provides a useful point of comparison for your own policies and procedures.  More