Private Information Exposed, Leaving California Firearms Instructors Vulnerable

By Pamela Jablonski

When Kamala Harris was Attorney General for the State of California, just prior to winning the open Senate seat of Barbra Boxer, she issued a data breach report after personal information on thousands of California firearms instructors was accidentally leaked. The report read in part:

Data breaches, particularly when they involve sensitive information such as Social Security numbers and health records, threaten not only the privacy but also the security and economic wellbeing of consumers.

Now that organizations rely increasingly on the collection and use of personal information and criminals take advantage of security weaknesses to obtain and profit from that same information, it is more important than ever that all of us redouble our efforts to ensure that this data does not end up in the wrong hands.

But many of the breaches reported to us could have been prevented by taking reasonable security measures, and an organization that voluntarily chooses to collect and retain personal information takes on a legal obligation to adopt appropriate security controls. As California’s top cop, I take a “Smart on Crime” approach to public safety – and in the 21st century, that means being “Smart on Tech.”

As Ms. Harris herself stated she was the “top …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms