Every company is always at risk of having trade secrets compromised, intellectual property stolen, and business plans revealed in an untimely manner. Industrial espionage and spying remain at a high level and are practiced on an international scale. An organization’s privacy planning process needs to take these threats into consideration. However, theft of proprietary information is only part of an organization’s vulnerability in privacy wars. How it uses the information it collects about its customers, or even its suppliers, can also increase its vulnerability. One of an organization’s greatest points of vulnerability is a lack of knowledge about the types of data it has and.
