{"id":72,"date":"2010-08-31T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-08-31T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T09:32:05","slug":"zurich-insurance-data-loss-why-target-only-the-fincos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Insurance data loss – why target only the fincos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was forwarded an article today from the BBC news website\u00a0– Zurich Insurance fined \u00a32.3m over customers’ data loss<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 It’s a fairly standard article about a financial institution being fined for \u00a0losing customer data.<\/p>\n

What really struck me though was a comment in the article from the FSA – “Firms across the financial sector would do well to look at the details of this case and learn from the mistakes that Zurich UK made…<\/em>“.\u00a0 That’s true.\u00a0 But what concerns me is the real focus on fincos with this stuff.\u00a0 There are so many other companies now holding our private data – and in many cases they are holding more than the financial institutions do.<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t we be maturing this argument now to extend beyond financial institutions?\u00a0 There should a duty of care for any company holding my data.\u00a0 Financials can lead the way – but we need to hold other companies accountable as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was forwarded an article today from the BBC news website\u00a0– Zurich Insurance fined \u00a32.3m over customers’ data loss\u00a0.\u00a0 It’s a fairly standard article about a financial institution being fined for \u00a0losing customer data. What really struck me though was a comment in the article from the FSA – “Firms across the financial sector would… <\/span>Continue Reading Zurich Insurance data loss – why target only the fincos?<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pX0hd-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wingsofhermes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}