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Information Security Breaches: Privacy Laws and Procedures

In the good old days, security concerns of tenants could generally be laid to rest simply by recourse to a good locksmith. In those simpler times, and without any association with security matters, landlords and property managers routinely gathered from tenants social security numbers and other information for purposes of protecting the landlord's interests when it came to tracking down miscreant tenants. Because this type of information was not subject to the widening panoply of privacy-related laws that are now becoming ubiquitous across the United States, no special arrangements were typically considered necessary to protect this information, and there was no particular risk or burden imposed on its holder. How things have changed. Nowadays, holding this type of information can constitute a double-edged sword, with any slip carrying with it the possibility of harm to the wielding hand.

16 minute readApril 26, 2007 at 04:57 PM
By
Melissa J. Krasnow
Randolph M. Perkins
Information Security Breaches: Privacy Laws and Procedures

Part One of a Two-Part Series

In the good old days, security concerns of tenants could generally be laid to rest simply by recourse to a good locksmith.

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