Best practices for data security

This book “Privacy Issues for Website Operators” by Shaun Spalding is a practical guide for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and corporate webmasters to understand best practices for maintaining user privacy and how best to avoid legal liability for data privacy violations.

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Scope of Discussion

This book focuses somewhat on websites that accept/republish user-generated content (like “social networking” sites). Many of the principles are generally applicable, but it doesn’t directly tackle many specialized privacy issues related to web applications (webmail programs, p2p file sharing) websites … Continue Reading

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Privacy Policies

Many website operators decide to include privacy policies on their websites but few know (A) what purpose they serve, (B) when they are necessary/unnecessary and (C) what problems can arise if these policies are written carelessly or copied and pasted … Continue Reading

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Terms of Use

Just like privacy policies, many website operators include Terms of Use/Terms of Service statements on their websites but have (A) no idea why they are necessary/unnecessary and (B) no sense of how to draft them properly to limit privacy issues … Continue Reading

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Data Security

Data security generally involves two different issues: (A) physical security and accountability for the hard drives, disks, and computers data is stored and (B) security of databases, intranets, and online accounts from improper access through stolen passwords, hacking, unintentional dissemination. This … Continue Reading

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Moderators, Super-Users and Effective Community Guidelines

Community rules and guidelines in a terms of use are meaningless if the users of a site refuse to follow those guidelines. As disucssed in Part I of the paper, it’s expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes impossible to use formal legal … Continue Reading

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