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Privacy and security

Privacy and security

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Privacy and security

- [Instructor] Organizations possess a wide variety of sensitive information, including private information about individuals. There are two classes of private information that should be carefully protected. Personally Identifiable Information, or PII is a broad category of information that applies to any records that can be tied back to an individual person. They might include extremely sensitive data such as credit reports, and tax returns, or more mundane records such as movie viewing histories. Protected Health Information, PHI, consists of medical records about individuals collected by doctors, laboratories, hospitals and other healthcare providers. In many cases, PHI is regulated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA. Whenever you handle private information, you should do so in accordance with the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles or GAPP. These GAP principles were developed…

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