globeandmail.com: Watchdog urges firms to lock up customer digital data

Jennifer Stoddard, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has released her annual report on PIPEDA (http://www.privcom.gc.ca/information/ar/200708/2007_pipeda_e.asp) and has urged companies to take greater care with the private information they currently hold in potentially insecure platforms such as laptops. It was also reported that work is underway to draft legislation that will require companies to report breaches of security with regard to their data. Security over data help on laptops and handhelds continues to dominate the news and points to the need for this area to remain a major element of an organization's security strategy. globeandmail.com: Watchdog urges firms to lock up customer digital data