Identity management is one of the issues that almost every organization wants to address, only to discover how complicated it actually is to accomplish from both a technology and business perspective.

The non-profit privacy organization known as EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Feb. 9, 2012, against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a somewhat-roundabout attempt to stop Google from implementing its new privacy policy targeted to go into effect March 1.

A relatively small $82,000 lawsuit and countersuit between U.S. Bank and a Park City, Utah, restaurant over responsibility for hacked customer data could have big repercussions for credit card giant Visa/Mastercard and its payment card industry (PCI) security rules.

UPS, or Big Brown as it is sometimes known, is instituting several changes to its privacy policy this year that actually makes its customers’ privacy a little less private.

We’ve spoken about the risk of compliance, and how much you should spend on it based on the incalculable. But let’s go deeper, particularly as the holidays arrive.