The Secure ID Coalition does not sell, rent, exchange or otherwise disclose our mailing lists or information about our site visitors, except when compelled by law (we discuss this exception in greater detail here).
This Privacy Policy covers the Secure ID Coalition’s main Web site at secureidcoalition.org, as well as other Secure ID Coalition -created or Secure ID Coalition -maintained sites that link directly to this Policy. Such other sites may also provide supplemental information in a site-specific policy.
When you visit any Web page hosted at our Web site, we will record the following information about you in our log files:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address - The address of your computer on the Internet. Your IP address gets transmitted whenever you communicate online or surf the Web so that the content you are looking at and the people you are talking to can find your computer on the network.
- Browser type, version, and operating system –Knowing the browsers (for example, Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3.5.3) and operating systems (for example Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP or Mac OS X) used by our visitors helps us optimize the display and delivery of our site for visitors accessing it from differing software platforms.
- Screen size - Knowing the screen sizes used by our visitors helps us optimize the display and delivery of our site for visitors.
- Technologies supported by your browser for Java, Adobe Flash, Adobe Director, and Adobe PDF, and the audio formats supported by your browser for RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player – Knowing the formats supported by visitors’ browsers helps us optimize the content on our site for visitors accessing it with different browser configurations.
- URL of the page that directed you to our site – If you arrive at our Web site through a link on another Web site - a blog, newspaper article, or search engine, for example - our Web server will record the address of the Web page that referred you to our site. If you arrive at our Web site by clicking on a search result returned by a search engine, our server will record the search terms that you used.
- Whether you have bookmarked our Web site on your Web browser – This information is only reported for Internet Explorer users.
- The Web pages within our site that you visit, the Web page you visit first on our site (the entry page), and the Web page you visit last on our site (the exit page).
- Bandwidth used – The total number of bytes downloaded when you browse our site.
- Amount of time you spend during a visit to our site.
- Time and date of your site visit.
Secure News to Know
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Meaningful Use Fails to Address Health Information Security Concerns
Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the final rule defining “Meaningful Use” for electronic health records (EHRs). Unfortunately, the definition does little to address concerns about the protection of personal health information and provides no guidance on the requirements to securely access electronic medical records.
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Cybersecurity Bill Passes Senate Homeland Security Committee
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Yesterday the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee amended and passed S.3480: Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010. Cyber attacks on our information technology networks and critical infrastructure are one of the greatest threats our country faces, potentially impacting the energy supply, financial services and communication systems. S.3480 ventures to reduce the risk of such debilitating attacks.
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Identity Authentication is the Best Medicine for the Healthcare system
Yesterday the Senate unanimously voted to designate the week of June 14, 2010 as National Health Information Technology Week. During this coming week Congress will endeavor to acknowledge the many benefits that Health IT (HIT) can bring to patients, healthcare providers and our medical system. As part of National Health Information Technology Week the Secure ID Coalition calls on Health & Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to require identity authentication in order to access electronic medical records, and personal health information.
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2010: The Year of Chip and PIN
2010 may be remembered as the year Chip and PIN payment cards came to America. With five days still left in May, two important events happened to change the payment industry in the U.S. forever.
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