Only three months ago,  a report resulting from research by the Chartered Management Institute was released to the general public.  The report was authored by Patrick Woodman and Dr. Vidal Kumar.  Against the backdrop of continued threats to business disruptions , there remains a strong need for business continuity planning and strategies in today’s organizations.

Having overlooked an earlier  recommendation from our blog to read this important report, we were recently reminded of it from several emails sent to our attention on this topic.  We would like to argue that while this report was conducted in the U.K for and within the U.K. market, it still is good reading by and relevant to U.S. companies.

Please consider adding this report to your library of resources dealing with the topic of Business Continuity Management.

Click here to read this report.

Earlier this week, four Google executives will be put on trial in Italy.  These executives are  accused of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data.  These charges of inadequately regulating content on the internet are serious and can present a maximum jail sentence of 36 months to the accused executives if convicted.

Rosalie Marshall, a contributing writer of V3.co.uk (formerly vnunet.com) presents a summary article of the issues and claims surrounding this trial, and, for a topic this important to privacy rights on the internet, it is an article well worth reading. And, the trial may be one well worth following over the next several months.

Many should be watching the outcome of this trial, since, this area of privacy on the internet relates to so many other areas of privacy that can impact the plans of internet use within organizations worldwide.

Click here to read this article.

Information security and individual privacy can and often are affected by those small pieces of browser software that tracks and authenticates web viewing activities by users …e.g. “cookies”.

As you can imagine, much debate goes on over this topic and how the goverment will take a policy position regarding these “cookies”.

Typically these “cookies” and how they affect privacy and information security are thought of relevant to individuals.  However, they are also relevant to the activities conducted by individuals working in business environment and have the potential to violate individual privacy rights in any case.

Eric Chabrow, in his blog “The Public Eye” does a good job keeping tabs on our federal government’s efforts to protect its citizen’s privacy — particularly when applied to writing and enforcing a “federal cookie policy”.

Click here to read more about this often overlooked element of risk to privacy.