Good: Companies Care About Data Privacy Bad: No Idea How To Protect It

Esther Schindler writes: Research performed by Dimensional Research demonstrated something most of us know: Just about every business cares about data privacy, and intends to do something to protect sensitive information. But when you cross-tabulate the results to look more closely at what organizations are actually doing to ensure that private data stays private, the results are sadly predictable: While smaller companies care about data privacy just as much as big ones do, they're ill-equipped to respond. What's different is not the perceived urgency of data privacy and other privacy/security matters. It's what companies are prepared (and funded) to do about it. For instance: "When it comes to training employees on data privacy, 82% of the largest organizations do tell the people who work for them the right way to handle personally identifiable data and other sensitive information. Similarly, 71% of the businesses with 1,000-5,000 employees offer such training. However, even though smaller companies are equally concerned about the subject, that concern does not trickle down to the employees quite so effectively. Half of the midsize businesses offer no such training; just 39% of organizations with under 100 employees regularly train employees on data privacy."

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Fairly easy way to protect data.

[SuperKendall]

Never collect it to begin with.

Reality

[sublayer]

TFA: Just about every business cares about data privacy

Reality: Just about every business says they care about data privacy

The first line of the typical company privacy policy is "we value your privacy", but the next ten pages list all the ways they are going to violate it.

as much as big companies?

[Gravis Zero]

smaller companies care about data privacy just as much as big ones do

so they care deeply until you ask them to spend money at which point they will do the minimum needed to avoid being sued. gotcha, they're directed by sociopath.