BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Email Spoofing, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act, Adware

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Peter Tingling

Document Summary

Identity theft = vital info of person used to facilitate impersonation. Involves stealing, misrepresenting, hijacking identity of another person/business & provides effective way to commit other crimes. Pipeda = personal info protection & electronic documents act. Balance indiv"s right to privacy of his/her personal info, which orgs need to collect, use & share personal info for business purposes. Every business professional needs to be aware of pipeda b/c it governs how data are collected & used. One of most critical elements of pipeda is principle that indivs have right to know what type of info an org collects about them & also how that info is going to be used. Pipeda creates some protection of personal privacy. Pipeda provides indiv right to know who in org is responsible for securing info. 3 sources of security threats: human errors 2) malicious human activity 3) natural events & disasters. Human errors & mistakes: accidental problems caused by both employees others outside org.