3M Privacy Filters Review
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Nymity's Independent Privacy Solutions Review provides an unbiased assessment of the legal and privacy benefits of 3M Privacy Filters and how these Filters will help your organizations comply with privacy laws and reduce your exposure to a data breach.
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Privacy Compliance: Privacy Filters
Privacy laws in Canada mandate that organizations establish and implement adequate safeguards to restrict unauthorized access to personal information. They must ensure only individuals to which the organization has consent view an individual's personal information. Disclosures of information to unauthorized individuals is a privacy breach and the offending organization would be found non-complaint with one or more of the 23 privacy laws in Canada, including Canada's federal private-sector privacy laws the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Privacy laws also require that organizations take reasonable steps to implement physical, organizational and technological security measures. Not doing so would find an organization non-compliant, even if a breach did not occur.
Reasonable Safeguards Test
In a recent court case, a reasonable safeguards test was used to assess if the organization was compliant. The test included the foreseeability of a privacy breach and the cost of implementing the security measures to prevent it from occurring. This precedent will likely be used to assess an organization's investment in privacy safeguards should they be subject to an investigation or legal action.
With the increase in identity theft and the forthcoming of breach notification legislative requirements, the importance of an organizations investment in privacy solutions to restrict unauthorized access to and disclosures of personal information is becoming more critical.
Mandatory Breach Notification
It is likely that several of the private-sector privacy laws in Canada will be modified to require mandatory notification to individuals should there be a breach of their personal information. It is also expected that the forthcoming amendments will require reporting of breaches to the privacy commissioner's office. These amendments will compel organizations to reinvest in privacy and implement enhanced safeguarding mechanisms.
Privacy Review: 3M Privacy Filters
3M Privacy Filters restrict access to personal information on a computer screen to the individual immediately behind the screen. The Filters are an inexpensive mechanism to protect privacy by implementing reasonable safeguards. Organizations that use 3M Privacy Filters could be found to be complying with privacy laws as they can demonstrate they implemented safeguards to protect personal information and will demonstrate due diligence to privacy Commissioners by taking cost-effective precautions to ensure compliance.
Culture of Privacy
Privacy Filters have the additional privacy value as they reinforce the organization's commitment to privacy to employees. Privacy Filters send a clear message to employees that the organization takes privacy seriously and the filters are a visual reminder that influences employees behavior when handling personal information. Privacy Filters help organizations build a culture of privacy which will help eliminate privacy breaches and ensure compliance. |
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3M Privacy ROI
An organization must use a risk model to calculate the privacy return on investment (Privacy ROI). A risk model would take the average cost of a breach, the likelihood of a breach over a 3 to 5 year period, the number of breaches that could be eliminated and divide it by the cost of the filters. The cost of a breach can be calculated by taking the costs of:
- notifying the individual(s)
- notifying the Privacy Commissioners' offices
- dealing with a Commissioner's investigation
- media exposure, if the individual contacts the press
- dealing with legal counsel
- conducting audits and implementing high-level safeguards
- restricting certain applications when using portable computers in public places and
- building physical dividers between employees.
The Ponomon instituted calculated a cost of average breach to be $231 dollars per incident. The cost of a privacy filter ranges from $25 to $45 dollars.
Other factors that increase the Privacy ROI include:
- the value of demonstrating due-diligence to the Privacy Commissioners and
- the value Privacy Filters provide in helping an organization build a culture of privacy.
Organization's often implement privacy Filters as part of a program to roll out a new Privacy policy, a new security policy or as part of a training program to reinforce existing privacy and security policies. Note, there is non-privacy value for 3M Privacy Filters, that is outside the scope of this Privacy Review, but will increase the total ROI of this investment. |
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Next Steps - Free Nymity Privacy ROI Support
Contact a 3M supplier to understand the specific benefits of their 3M Privacy Filters services to your organization.
Then, based on all the privacy benefits to your organization, calculate the privacy ROI and the total solution ROI. If you would like assistance calculating the privacy ROI, contact Nymity, and we will provide free unbiased assistance.
For more information visit 3M Privacy Filters. |
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