How Privacy Breach Notification Law Affects Your Blog

[snakeair]

Have a look at the blog post before you post a response. The folks who have some knowledge in the legal field, please post a response.

Do you run a web-based business and collect data about your customers? If so, do you have professional practices in place to ensure the protection of that information and the privacy of your customers? No? Then ask not for whom the bell tolls, as it tolls for you—Privacy Breach Notification Laws are here.

Before you scramble to fire off an email to your service provider to disable your ecommerce facilities or remove all forms from your blog, don’t. If you’re running a small site or a modest-sized mailing list and don’t collect any information on your visitors, then please don’t be alarmed.

However, irrespective of the scope of your online presence, please take a few minutes to get yourself up to date on what privacy breach notification laws are, and how they impact you.

Despite how much we love all things web, we know that it can be a bit of a wild west out there. We hear reports of security breaches at companies big and small, such as...

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Anything else that we should know or do on our blogs?

[alquilar camara]

In Spain this is a very hot topic. There are cases of fines of 300,000 € for sending an e-mail from a gym to 30 clients with an attachment that contained information from other customers of the gym. It is Spain's data protection law is very harsh with their sanctions and does not take into consideration the size of the company.