ICS Data Protection Attitudes and Practices 03/10
 

Data Breaches

 
 20% 

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1. Have you ever been the victim of a data breach (a loss of your personal information by a third party)?

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2. In the absence of mandatory reporting of data breaches, how confident are you that you would be told if your personal information was compromised?

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Confidence

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3. Do you believe legislation should be introduced that requires organisations to notify the Data Protection Commissioner when a data breach occurs?

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4. Do you believe legislation should be introduced that requires organisations to notify customers whenever their data has been comprised?

5. Has your organisation ever experienced a data breach?

6. Data breaches have many foreseeable but often ignored costs including damage to reputation, the risk of prosecution and the financial cost of dealing with the aftermath. In your opinion, has your organisation fully considered these when deciding its security and privacy policies?