Online Privacy Policies Reveal Alarming Trends

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Managing Compliance Standards December 22, 2011 Online Privacy Policies Are Lengthy, Complicated and Reveal Alarming Trends TRUSTe, a leading online privacy solutions provider, recently released its first privacy index as part of its new "Privacy Pulse" information series tracking changes and trends in online privacy. In the 2011 website edition of its privacy index, TRUSTe analyzed the privacy policies of the top 100 U.S. websites to evaluate privacy practices by measuring key policy attributes, as well as the type of disclosures contained in them. TRUSTe found that while nearly 100 percent of websites today include a privacy policy, existing policies are highly complex, lengthy and written in language that is confusing for the average person to understand. Additionally, the vast majority of privacy policies are not readily transparent regarding third-party usage of data or consumer choices. Read more > Application Clusters — High Availability Discover how to provide high levels of system availability and scalability, ensuring continuous data access and system flexibility. Download now > Blogs Don Tennant From Under the Rug Why It's So Essential to Be Able to Say 'No' (and Mean It) Carl Weinschenk Data and Telecom Is the Equation 'SOPA = the Death of the Internet' Real or Overblown? Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Path to the Board Room Must Begin Early The Nuts and Bolts of Data Storage   Discover how to implement tiered storage in your organization, improve storage performance while increasing capacity, and drive down storage costs. Download now > Top 10 Happiest Companies in America Top 10 companies to work for based on key factors that affect work happiness. Top 10 Gifts for Executives On the Go The following is a list of 10 gift suggestions that Paul Mah put together for the traveling executive. In the Aftermath of the DigiNotar, Comodo and RSA Breaches: What Have We Learned? This article details how those breaches occurred and the lessons that the victims learned from them. Featured White Papers Six Steps to Avoid the e-Discovery Inferno Read this white paper to learn how to strike a better balance by making sure you're saving all the data you may need — and none that you won't. •  Just in Time for 2012: Expert Guidance for Enterprise Resource Planning •  Developing a Security Strategy: From Prevention to Business Enabler •  Risk Management in Practice: What's Holding You Back? "If we don't actively challenge our initial position, we won't allow ourselves to see errors that could result in avoidable mistakes. I see this most with failing CEOs who surround themselves with folks that agree with them and then make catastrophic mistake after catastrophic mistake, never realizing that most, if not all, were actually avoidable." Excerpt from Rob Enderle Unfiltered Opinion Latest White Papers Guarding the Endpoints — A Best-Practices Guide Ten Ways Your IT Department Is Enabling Cybercriminals Stormy Weather Ahead: The Challenges of Cloud Area Network Ops ITSM Basics: Five Traits of Orchestrated Service Management This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2011 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise