The repeal of the FCC’s broadband privacy rules; will it hold?
On Monday April 3rd , U.S. President Donald Trump signed a repeal of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year relating to protecting the privacy …
Category: Privacy & Compliance
Data State of Mind: Know Your Customer, Know Their Data
Consumer data is a big deal to the consumers who share the data, the companies that collect and process the data, and the governments that oversee the protection …
The Risky Business of Privacy Risk
The EU GDPR at its heart is about privacy risk. Avoiding privacy violations is about understanding and mitigating privacy risk. But what is privacy risk? The EU GDPR …
Meeting GDPR Data Subject Rights Through Automation
Some of the new EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy requirements can seem daunting at first blush to a company that is subject to them. Unlike SOX …
Architecting Privacy: Identity Data As-A-Service
APIs are a reach multiplier. They can make data and applications programmatically accessible across the extended enterprise or the wider Internet. By making data and application functionality open, …
Privacy Impact Assessments: Ensuring They’re More Than Just Words
A Privacy Impact Assessment, or PIA, is an analysis of how personally identifiable information is collected, used, shared, and maintained by an organization. PIAs are meant to help …
Privacy Babel: Making Sense of Global Privacy Regulations
In the world of data privacy, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation has grabbed all the headlines. As much of a landmark piece of legislation the EU …
Can Privacy (Shield) Evolve From Trust To Verify?
The adoption of Privacy Shield by US and EU regulatory authorities, the successor to Safe Harbor that has governed the transfer of personal data between the US, Canada …
Customer Consent; Whose Big Data Is It Anyway
Asking for permission isn’t just good manners any more. Securing and managing customer consent for the use and gathering of their private data will soon become standard operating …
How Minimizing Data Can Minimize Risk
According to a recent survey published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, some three-quarters of IT and infosecurity professionals ranked data minimization as the most important privacy …