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Most of us have been hearing the term “digital transformation” pretty much everywhere for a few years now. It all started by migrating business processes to automation, e-services were introduced, and with the advent and usage of mobile phones, we saw mobile apps for almost every line of business. Entire…
The Need for Data Privacy Initiatives Data Privacy is a growing concern for organizations worldwide, who are faced with an increasing number of Data Privacy regulations governing their collection, use, processing, storage, and disposition of personal information about their consumers and employees. Although the modern Data Privacy regulations started in…
More and more data is processed online during these past decades in comparison to the storing of data on paper and files not too long ago, with the digitalization of processes, from daily life activities to organizational data, like employees, documents, clients information, etc., data privacy concerns started rising. With…
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect in May 2018, is a set of regulations that create new rights for individuals with respect to their personal data. The GDPR applies to any company that processes the personal data of the European Union…
The past five years have witnessed unprecedented change in the realm of data privacy regulation. Since the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, jurisdictions across the globe have revisited past privacy laws and enacted new ones. While in general, the laws demonstrated a growing consensus that…
The 1-year anniversary of the GDPR has not really flooded the media the same way as it did at the launch. And I’m not sure what I should think about it today. Mixed feelings, mixed results, because the GDPR sets a consolidated baseline for privacy protection on the EU level…
IoT promises to be an extraordinary revolution in our day-to-day life. But how will we respond to the new cybersecurity and privacy threats that this new technology poses? What standards do we already have in place, and where is the global security discourse situated regarded this matter? …
ISO/IEC 27552 will be published in July 2019 as an extension ti ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002. This standard is ISO's response to integrating Information Privacy Management Systems to existing Information Security Management Systems based on ISO/IEC 27001 in order to insure compliance with data privacy regimes such as the…
In late April this year, Facebook announced that it has set aside $3 to $5 billion to negotiate a settlement agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission over a complaint of mishandled users’ personal data, which emerged in light of to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March 2018. The company’s…
Facebook’s privacy issues have been at the forefront of public discussion over how the political data firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to personal information of approximately 87 million Facebook users worldwide (initially reported 50 million). Facebook has come under intense scrutiny, and the outcry over data privacy has been so…
