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 …
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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 …
Identifying Identity Data: Will You Know It If You See It?
What might have been in the past a clear and binary answer to the question of what constitutes personally identifiable information (PII) will soon become more complex and …
Can you be data driven if you don’t know where your data’s been?
As Bob Marley once observed: “If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from.” The same principle could be said to hold for the …
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 …
Do You Know Where Your Customer Data Is?
Data about customer preferences and behavior is a critical resource to a data-driven organization. Greater insights into what motivates and matters to customers help organizations build loyalty by …
The New Face of Identity (You Are More Than Your Password)
Protecting the privacy of customer data is no longer just a matter of meeting regulations — it’s rapidly becoming a cornerstone for business; customers buy from vendors they …