Privacy Control News & Articles

When the CEO of The Human Factor, Holly Green, asks her audience if best practices are their worst enemy, she says she always gets the same reaction: "They look at me like I'm nuts!" And so perhaps the title of this article brought you here to find out if CMSWire had finally fallen off its rocker. On the contrary, we're intrigued by the number of people that agree with Green's notion. 

As social network-infused business solutions continue to grow exponentially, so does the need to analyze the importance of the resulting relationships for better performance and productivity. And yet, Gartner predicts only 25% of enterprises will routinely evaluate these data through 2015. The culprit? Privacy concerns.  

Will Google ever be able to make up for the privacy problems that came along with the Buzz launch? Who knows, but they sure are going to try. For instance, now when you login to Gmail, click the Buzz tab and you’ll see a screen asking you to confirm your privacy settings before you continue.  

Barely a week after its release and Buzz has already – surprise, surprise! – pissed a bunch of people off in a huge way. Apparently Google’s sorry, but it doesn’t look like apologies are going to be enough this time.

After some recent compliance moves on Bing’s part, it appears that Microsoft (news, site) may care more about protecting your privacy than Google.

A new year for governance, risk management and compliance brings a little something for everyone. Healthcare industries get a new tool, acquisitions and collaboration bring continued success, and cloud computing impacts data storage in the UK.

This week in GRC: a new privacy manager to map your enterprise's risks, a conference for pique your interest in identity management and a survey that shows you're getting better at managing GRC.