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As companies, schools, and universities consider how to bring their employees and students back to work, on-site and in the classroom, temperature checks and privacy data have been clashing. Organizations trying to make certain it is safe to come back by using temperature checks is not so simple when they also have to be sure […]

As the amount of data stored and used by organizations around the world steadily increases, so do the risks and costs associated with lost or exposed personal information. While the reported number of data breaches varies by reporting agency, depending on the criteria used, one unmistakable trend is clear: The number of data breaches and […]

In August of 2018, Brazil enacted it’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) which will finally come into effect on August 15th. This is Brazil’s first omnibus privacy regulation. Before LGPD Brazil has had the Brazilian Internet Act to protect online users, as well as various privacy provisions in its constitution, civil codes, and various regulations. […]

From social media hacks across high-profile accounts to misconfigured server data from major genetics and genealogy services companies, these are the top data breaches to capture news headlines over the last month. Singing Like a Canary In an almost unfathomable series of data privacy events, Twitter went 3 for 3 in May, June, and now […]

The recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union to invalidate the Privacy Shield’s adequacy is getting a lot of attention for its geopolitical ramifications. While the Court let the other legal mechanisms for legitimizing the cross-border transfer of personal data stand, its judgment, as well as FAQs published by the European […]

June 2020 came just about about seven months into the assault of a coronavirus generating the pandemic of COVID-19. By then, state, local, and in some cases, entire nations ordered a mishmash of inconsistent steps to manage the virus. Shelter-in-place orders, lockdowns, and ultimately curfews were imposed. The world was tuned in to favorite streaming […]

As companies are looking to minimize their risk profile and address privacy requirement, they look for tools that will allow them to meet the first step in building an effective privacy program – creating (and maintaining) an inventory of the personal information they process across their enterprise. There are many technology vendors in the market […]

Covid-19 has been spreading since Fall 2019 and has become a raging global pandemic. In that time, developers across the world have been working around the clock, building dozens of apps and systems for COVID-19 contact tracing. Each of the apps attempts to identify individuals who come in contact with a COVID-19 carrier in order […]

Until a few months ago, work-life for many individuals involved commuting to work and meeting colleagues and/or clients in person. But with the COVID-19 outbreak, ‘homes’ have become temporary offices. As a result, digital transformation has become foundational for many businesses to support the remote working model. Since the transition to remote working happened so […]

Data Discovery has been around for many years, with many use cases, such as helping organizations analyze data for actionable insights and to help lower corporate risk. It has traditionally been a function of information security. The term refers to the identification of data elements in a repository in order to inventory and protect the […]