Protecting Personal Business Information
Personal business refers to the activities or tasks individuals or companies manage on their own, for example, managing finances, completing household chores or maintaining appointments. It could also refer to creating and running your own small business based upon your talents, interests and experience as a sole proprietor or an individual.
Although data privacy laws vary from nation to country and state to state but they all share the same definitions of what is considered personal information. The CCPA and Connecticut’s law for example, describe personal data as any information that is reasonably linked to an identifiable individual, except for de-identified data or publicly available information. The CCPA also contains a separate category for sensitive personal information which requires more protection than any other form of data.
It’s important to know how much data is stored in your organization and where it’s located. This can be accomplished by conducting a full inventory on all documents, files, and storage devices. This should include desktops, cabinets, and laptops as well as mobile devices, flash drives, disks and digital copiers. Make sure you check places where sensitive data may be stored outside of your office. This is the case for employees’ homes as well as their work-from home computers.
PII that is considered to be sensitive must be protected both during transit and in rest and only kept for as long as it is necessary for business. This includes biometric data, medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), unique identifiers such as passport or Social Security numbers and employee personnel records.
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