Security / Investigation

My husband found something online he thought I’d like and texted me the link. I clicked and looked at it on my phone and moved on. I didn’t buy it, never signed up for anything, and definitely never typed my email address into that site.

Within a day, I had a “Welcome to [Retailer]” email sitting in my inbox.

Ninety minutes

After I was asked the same question 3x in one day, and it’s one of the most common questions I get, I opted to make it today’s newsletter topic.

🥁 Drumroll please ….

What privacy framework should we adopt? NIST? ISO?  Another one?

I want to say up front that frameworks are genuinely useful. We created the Privacy☘︎Ops® Framework and use

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If your organization operates under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), privacy compliance is not new to you. Both laws have their own privacy rules and obligations; however, they were designed around specific data types, held by specific entity types, in specific contexts. State-level consumer privacy laws were built around a different premise

Disclaimer: Kash, John, and Michele all made a point of saying this up front, so I’m doing the same. Everything they shared reflects their own personal views, not the official position of their offices or Attorneys General.

This past Wednesday, I hosted a fireside chat with three state privacy regulators. Kash Chand out of the New Jersey Attorney General’s office, John

One of the most requested services we’re seeing right now is the cookie audit. Why? Between CIPA litigation, enforcement actions, and more privacy laws, companies are finally paying attention to what’s happening to those digital trackers and cookies on their sites.

We find it’s the same story we run into with clients constantly. A company sets up a cookie banner.

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What goes into a good business website? Whether you’re putting together a new one or maintaining an existing site, there are a hundred (if not more) decisions you’ll make in the process. 

Addressing these issues can feel like trying to get to the end of an ever-growing punchlist. And with so many requirements pulling in different directions, it’s hard to

Thirteen Years Later

This weekend, it will be thirteen years since I nearly lost my life after a pregnancy complication and needed a life-saving transfusion. I don’t write about that day often. It’s not an easy one to revisit. But every year around this time, I find myself thinking about what it changed in me, and maybe because I now

Growing up, July 4th meant watching fireworks with my family on the beach somewhere overlooking Long Island Sound, and for many years with takeout from Roy Rogers (those biscuits were SO good!).

When my kids were young, we joined the rest of Atlanta on 30A (beautiful white sandy beaches in the FL panhandle) and celebrated July 4th on the beach.