The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act puts South Africa’s data regulation standards on par with existing data protection laws around the world. It aims to protect personally identifiable information (PII), enforce individuals’ rights to privacy, and provide guidelines for …
The California Consumer Protection (CCPA) act took effect on January 1, 2020, and companies across the globe are scrambling to get their act together to avoid non-compliance penalties.
Although enforcement of the CCPA doesn’t officially begin until July 2020, the …
The EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA are two of the world’s most prominent data regulations. Similar laws have been passed in several countries, including Japan, Thailand, and Australia. Still others, like India, are in the process of drafting their own …
Businesses are comprised of different departments and professionals, with data flowing across the organization. When there’s a data breach, it’s usually the data protection officers (DPOs), CIOs, and CISOs who take the brunt of the blame; however, since the introduction …
As companies across the world rush to become compliant with the GDPR, many have failed to notice that California will set its own data and privacy protection requirements by January 1, 2020. California governor Jerry Brown signed CA Assembly Bill …
As the buzz around the GDPR and its implementation begins to settle down, we’re starting to see how this regulation is changing the way business respond to breaches. One of the first victims of a major data breach since the …
Today’s businesses run on data. From getting customer information for payment, processing employee information for payroll, using publicly available data for targeted advertising, to tracking people’s behavior for marketing, data has become the power center of organizations. But with this …
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we uncover some of the aspects of the GDPR that may go unnoticed.
The judgment day is finally here. …
When considering everyone in your enterprise, you may think of your chief executive officer as one of the most important employees. However, if you factor in the steep demands of the upcoming GDPR, it would be accurate to say that …