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There’s More to Data Protection than Thwarting Hackers
By Brian Orsak
printWhen reports surfaced in February that thousands of travel applications and other sensitive documents from the Indian consulate in San Francisco sat unprotected at a recycling center for more than a month, John Hyland was surprised at one thing: that the consulate's deputy general consul, B.S. Prakash, seemed unconcerned. In India, Prakash explained in a February 2 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, this would not be a problem. Because the documents, which included applicants' names, birth dates, passport numbers and photos, did not contain Social Security or credit card numbers, the consulate did not view them as confidential, Prakash...
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