One of the popular myths doing the rounds is that it is essentially the Data Protection Act (DPA) of 1998 dressed up in new clothes. The truth is that the DPA underpins the GDPR, but the critical difference - and this really has to be driven home to naysayers - is that the DPA was...
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the most significant development in privacy legislation in the US in recent years. Hurriedly passed into law on 28 June 2018, the CCPA followed in the footsteps of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was enforced only a ...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) regulation for data protection. It applies to the processing of personal data of people in the EU by businesses that operate in the EU. It’s important to note that GDPR applies not only to firms based in the EU, bu...
Finally, the GDPR applies to the processing of personal data for virtually any reason: commercial, academic, governmental, and otherwise. Businesses, hospitals, schools, and public authorities are all subject to the GDPR. The only processing operations exempt from the GDPR are national security and ...
Eight months on, we look at how the EU’s data protection regulation has impacted APAC advertisers and consumers. The value of owning one's own data as a brand is coming to the fore after GDPR, according to industry insiders. When the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection ...
Tutorial to encrypt disks with BitLocker to meet GDPR Data Protection Officer Requirements by using Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere.Step 1. Download and install Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere.Step 2. Launch Hasleo BitLocker Anywhere, right-click the drive letter you want to encrypt, then...
The European Union has become a leader in consumer protection with its data privacy law: the General Data Protection Regulation (also called the GDPR). This groundbreaking policy establishes hundreds of pages of responsibilities and requirements for organizations all over the world. To learn more and...
Data breach victims also frequently face steep regulatory fines or legal penalties. Government regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and industry regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA), oblige companies to protect their customers’...
Simon London:One of the big talking points at the moment is that the European data-protection regulation, GDPR, went into effect at the end of May. I suspect that a lot of managers are only now getting to grips with the operational implications of that. There are probably a lo...
While there aren’t specific laws directly prohibiting digital fingerprinting, many existing data privacy laws offer protections against its misuse. For example, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States prov...