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What is the main purpose in notifying data subjects of a data breach?
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Data breach notifications are intended to protect individuals and allow them to take action. Let's analyze the options:
A . To avoid financial penalties and legal liability:
While compliance with breach notification laws can reduce liability, this is not the primary purpose of notifying data subjects.
B . To enable regulators to understand trends and developments that may shape the law:
This describes the purpose of breach reporting to regulators, not notifying data subjects.
C . To ensure organizations have accountability for the sufficiency of their security measures:
This relates to internal accountability and compliance but is not the main reason for notifying data subjects.
D . To allow individuals to take any actions required to protect themselves from possible consequences:
This is the primary purpose of data breach notifications, empowering individuals to mitigate risks like identity theft or financial fraud.
CIPM Study Guide References:
Privacy Program Operational Life Cycle -- 'Respond' phase includes breach notification as a requirement under various laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
GDPR Article 34 specifies that breach notifications to individuals aim to enable protective actions.
What have experts identified as an important trend in privacy program development?
An important trend in privacy program development is the movement beyond crisis management to proactive prevention. This means that instead of reacting to privacy breaches or incidents after they occur, organizations are taking steps to prevent them from happening in the first place. This involves implementing privacy by design principles, conducting privacy impact assessments, adopting privacy-enhancing technologies, training staff on privacy awareness and best practices, and monitoring compliance and performance. By doing so, organizations can reduce risks, costs, and reputational damage associated with privacy violations.Reference: [IAPP CIPM Study Guide], page 93-94; [Moving from Crisis Management to Proactive Prevention]
What is one reason the European Union has enacted more comprehensive privacy laws than the United States?
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Amira is thrilled about the sudden expansion of NatGen. As the joint Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with her long-time business partner Sadie, Amira has watched the company grow into a major competitor in the green energy market. The current line of products includes wind turbines, solar energy panels, and equipment for geothermal systems. A talented team of developers means that NatGen's line of products will only continue to grow.
With the expansion, Amira and Sadie have received advice from new senior staff members brought on to help manage the company's growth. One recent suggestion has been to combine the legal and security functions of the company to ensure observance of privacy laws and the company's own privacy policy. This sounds overly complicated to Amira, who wants departments to be able to use, collect, store, and dispose of customer data in ways that will best suit their needs. She does not want administrative oversight and complex structuring to get in the way of people doing innovative work.
Sadie has a similar outlook. The new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has proposed what Sadie believes is an unnecessarily long timetable for designing a new privacy program. She has assured him that NatGen will use the best possible equipment for electronic storage of customer and employee dat
a. She simply needs a list of equipment and an estimate of its cost. But the CIO insists that many issues are necessary to consider before the company gets to that stage.
Regardless, Sadie and Amira insist on giving employees space to do their jobs. Both CEOs want to entrust the monitoring of employee policy compliance to low-level managers. Amira and Sadie believe these managers can adjust the company privacy policy according to what works best for their particular departments. NatGen's CEOs know that flexible interpretations of the privacy policy in the name of promoting green energy would be highly unlikely to raise any concerns with their customer base, as long as the data is always used in course of normal business activities.
Perhaps what has been most perplexing to Sadie and Amira has been the CIO's recommendation to institute a
privacy compliance hotline. Sadie and Amira have relented on this point, but they hope to compromise by allowing employees to take turns handling reports of privacy policy violations. The implementation will be easy because the employees need no special preparation. They will simply have to document any concerns they hear.
Sadie and Amira are aware that it will be challenging to stay true to their principles and guard against corporate culture strangling creativity and employee morale. They hope that all senior staff will see the benefit of trying a unique approach.
If Amira and Sadie's ideas about adherence to the company's privacy policy go unchecked, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could potentially take action against NatGen for what?
If Amira and Sadie's ideas about adherence to the company's privacy policy go unchecked, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could potentially take action against NatGen for deceptive practices. This is because the FCC has the authority to enforce Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. By allowing different departments to use, collect, store, and dispose of customer data in ways that may not be consistent with the company's privacy policy, NatGen may be misleading its customers about how their personal information is protected and used. This could violate the FTC Act and expose NatGen to enforcement actions, fines, and reputational damage.Reference: [FCC Enforcement], [FTC Act], [Privacy Policy]
''Collection'', ''access'' and ''destruction'' are aspects of what privacy management process?
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