[thelist] Sensitve information on the web

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Thu Nov 4 15:51:48 CDT 2010


On 3 Nov 2010, at 00:22, Todd Richards wrote:

> The problem that I have is that the form contains areas for date of birth,
> social security numbers, financial information (mostly about amounts rather
> than banking numbers), etc.


I know you're not quite dealing with payment card data, but PCI compliance is best practise for anything you'd consider sensitive:
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/why_comply.php
(and my definition of sensitive includes the legal one, and extends to 'anything the submitter might reasonably expect you to keep confidential')

Cheers
Martin

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