Why protect your digital privacy?
- Because up to 80% of all safety threats come from the inside (source: The Phenomenon Institute, 2008). The most often source of data leak is the company employees themselves. The loss of a notebook or a flash disk can cost the company a lot.
- Because only an antivirus and firewall are not enough to protect your privacy. Private information can fall into unauthorized hands in case of a loss or robbery. Therefore, start with both active and passive protection of private data today.
- Because even children can become victims of deceptive activities. It is necessary to protect even their privacy. Parents should have full control over their children's usage of computer. This is required by many parents today, especially due to free access to many web services.
Do you know that your employees play games for up to a fifth of the time?
Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach
Stolen laptop had doctors’ tax IDs.
The largest health insurer in Massachusetts is warning roughly 39,000 physicians and other health care providers in the state that personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised after a laptop containing the data was stolen in August from an employee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s national headquarters in Chicago.
(source: www.boston.com)
Towards a safer use of the Internet for children in the EU
For its 2008 Safer Internet Eurobarometer survey the Commission targeted parents of children between 6 and 17 years old from all 27 EU Member States. The results showed that 75% of children (aged between 6 and 17 years) are already online. 60% of European parents are worried that their child might become a victim of online grooming and 54% that their children could be bullied online.
(source: Safer Internet Programme)
