Sarbox-2
Joseph Nocera wrote a column in the morning’s New York Times called "For All Its Cost, Sarbanes Is Working". A lot of the story was subjective but there was an interesting quote from John J. Mahoney, the chief financial officer at Staples where they have spent $7-10 million instituting "Sarbox". According to the story, Mr. […]
Sarbox – A Silver Lining?
Just about everybody I know in the business world thinks the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation of 20002 (referred to as Sarbox) is really bad — high cost and de-focusing of management. There is certainly a basis for a less than rosy view of Sarbox — the act contains 68 sections and is 66 pages in length. The […]
Opt In – Opt Out
This morning I received the following SMS text message on my mobile phone: AT&T Wireless: $25K sweeps, reply YES to enter! NO PURCH REQ. Odds dep on # entries. Ends 9/30. [email protected]/usa 2 stop msgs go2 attwireless.com/privacy Personally, I found the unwanted message highly unprofessional. The message made it very simple to enter the "sweeps" […]
Privacy Conference
The IAPP is an association of more than 1,000 of the world’s leading privacy and security professionals. The first day of their conference culminated in a very nice reception at The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. Its contents include nearly […]
Blogging and Spam Update
One of the ways that you can tell if a new Internet technology is going to be successful is to look for skepticism. When people begin to say the hype exceeds the reality, it means we are on the way toward the reality exceeding the hype. I am not referring to new business models that […]
