Policy Statements

Policy 1.1 Policy Statement Section Overview

This is where you organize and list each applicable privacy policy statement. These are the rules that govern your company’s actions, and those of your staff. You need to determine an organization schema. Look around online to find examples of a useful style. Or, you may choose to use your current workplace documentation as a go-by.

Policy 1.2 Policy Statements Contents

The contents of these policies should contain at least the following features:

• The policy, itself, such as “Reasonable Expectation of Privacy for Employees.”
• The laws, regulations, or standards that relate to the policy at issue.
• An example, when applicable, that helps your audience understand the policy.
• Directions on how to effect the policy. For example, if your company processes payments by credit or debit cards, and your policy is something like “Anyone who processes payments via payment cards must conform their actions to PCI DSS standards related to privacy.” then you may want to insert a link to those standards. Or, perhaps, incorporate examples as mentioned directly above.

This list is not exhaustive. Depending on the set of facts, you may need to include more.

Policy 1.3 Comprehensive Policy Statements

The Policy Statements must be a comprehensive body. Do not omit the discussion of laws that may apply to your business. This means that you must understand what your business does, and its privacy implications. Every company has employees, so employees’ privacy must be addressed. While it is debatable, I have discussed that any HRIS, or a company’s personnel records kept otherwise, has the propensity to contain medical information that we now know to refer to as “PHI.” Thus, you should have some policy that governs handling those data vis-à-vis privacy. Could your company be known as a “financial institution?” If so, you must discuss GLB Act privacy policies.

The point is that in three to five pages you must tell your employees everything they need to know about maintaining appropriate privacy while conducting your business.

List of instructions:

The paper must be a minimum of 10 pages, Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced. APA formatting must be followed (cover page, abstract, headers, page numbers, citations, references). You must use your own words and properly cite and reference all sources used.

• You must use scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. (A peer-reviewed article is one that has “been evaluated by several researchers or subject specialist in the academic community prior to accepting it for publication” and is “also known as scholarly or refereed.”)
• Paper written for this course within the School for Computer and Information Sciences must follow the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style.
• Must be in APA Style
• Research Paper Must Have at Least 5 Works Cited of Which 2 Must be Peer Reviewed Works/Articles
• Must be at Least 10 Double-Spaced Pages (excluding Introduction and Reference Page),

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