If instead, the landlord received a signed security token from a
credit reporting agency, not with the Social Security Number in
it??”which isn??™t the information the landlord really wanted anyway
??”but with the contents of the credit report that were necessary
to make the same decision to rent the apartment or not, the
landlord could avoid the liability of caring for that data. Even if
the landlord??™s ?¬?les were stolen, they wouldn??™t contain any information
that leads to the renter??™s identity being stolen.
On top of reducing liability by storing less data, a secondary
bene?¬?t emerges: using fewer resources to store, back up, and
secure the data. Whereas a few columns here or there in a database
could hardly lead to a ?¬?nancial windfall, an organization
can cascade this concept throughout their entire system. Less
data to manage permits a more agile system. This agility can
facilitate an organization??™s capacity to adapt to new business
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challenges while balancing this against operational needs??”it
would still be necessary to store users??™ email addresses in their
pro?¬?les to send them a noti?¬?cation when they aren??™t signed in.
Relying on an IP
Quit Storing My Social Security Number!
On any given day, a search of the daily news on the Internet will turn up anywhere
from a few to literally dozens of articles of either a careless worker in
government, education, or business losing a database with Social Security
Numbers in it.
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