A new bill has been introduced in the Illinois legislature that would make it illegal for employers to ask prospective employees for access to their social network profiles. The bill, H.B. 3782, would amend the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to provide that employers may not ask job applicants for any username
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New Ponemon Survey Identifies Trends In Data Breach Responses
By Libbie Canter on
Posted in Data Breaches, Data Security
According to the annual Ponemon Institute survey report released March 8, 2011 in 2010, U.S. companies affected by data breaches incurred an average cost of $7.2 million per incident. (In comparison, in 2009, companies reported an average cost of $6.75 million). The Ponemon survey identified a number of other interesting trends:
- Companies are responding to data
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