Blackbaud in the News: What you should know about sensitive data

From The Philanthropy Journal 

Ideas that work: What you should know about sensitive data

Bucky Wall and Jake Marcinko | March 16, 2009

Data security issues have garnered a great deal of press lately.

So far in 2009, at least three credit-card processors, a major airline carrier and several government agencies have been involved in the compromise of sensitive personal information. Over 100 million records containing Social Security numbers, bank accounts, health-care details, and age, gender and other information on individuals have been lost. However, while there will likely be a great deal of fallout from these incidents, the fact remains they will have little impact on these organizations' bottom line. The reasoning for this has to do with the nature of the relationship the organizations have with the individuals they serve. Rarely do government institutions and business-to-business companies have personal relationships with customers. However, the relationship between most nonprofit organizations and their donors is different.

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