How Businesses Can Protect Their Customers0 Privacy

Privacy–it0s getting tougher to maintain, especially with identity theft on the rise. With this in mind, growing numbers of Americans are making demands on corporate America to treat their personal information with secrecy. According to a Harris Poll sponsored by Microsoft, 60% of Americans said they0ve decided not to support a store because of doubts about that store0s privacy protections. What is surprising is that it isn0t just marketers that are trying to access personal information. The government has drafted private industry for 0data collection duty0 in the war on terror.
So how can businesses keep customers0 personal information under wraps when the U.S. Patriot Act allows the government to collect copious amounts of this sort of information? Jacqueline Klosek, an attorney and author of the new book, 0The War on Privacy,0 advises clients on issues related to data privacy and security. As a Certified Information Privacy Professional, Klosek believes private industry faces a precarious balance, trying to simultaneously maintain consumer privacy while also complying with governmental demands for information.
0This issue is not going to just disappear,0 says Klosek. 0The war on terror has reduced privacy rights in the United States and around the world. The […]

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