Data Protection Archives

Privacy Cages: The End of Data Privacy Laws?

Evervault, a Dublin-based data privacy company has raised $16 million in its Series A funding round led by Index Ventures. This takes the total raised by the company to $19 million, giving it crucial resources to “build the API (application…

What is Federated Learning? And how can Differential Privacy Make it Better?

June 3, 2020
Tim Crino
Artificial Intelligence, Breach prevention, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Uncategorized
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Machine learning is a constantly growing technology. But some recent developments are particularly noteworthy for business leaders because they are paving the way for fairer, safer, more private, and more affordable machine learning algorithms. In 2017, Google announced that machine…

Complying with Data Privacy Law Lends a Competitive Advantage

May 6, 2020
Sowmya Kandregula
Data Privacy, Data Protection, Members Only, Privacy

Data governance and data privacy compliance almost always complement each other. When organizations are compliant with data privacy and security guidelines, it is likely because an effective data governance strategy is already in place. And the opposite is oftentimes also true. At the risk of oversimplifying these broad concepts, data privacy is about identifying and…

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Current Industry Regulations for Data Encryption: Are You Up to Date?

April 28, 2020
Max Totsky
CCPA, Data Protection, GDPR, Members Only

Though data is an incredibly valuable resource, more data generally means more responsibility. A larger amount of data presents a larger attack surface for hackers to target through cyberattacks. Encryption, the act of translating data into a new form that is undecipherable without a special key, is an impactful method of avoiding these issues and…

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Data Protection During a Global Crisis

As the deadly COVID-19 pandemic rages on, public and private entities alike rush to find a cure, a vaccine, and at the very least, methods for limiting the uncontrolled multiplication of the virus. But exploring every possibility must be balanced…

How to Establish Standardized Business Terms, A First Step in Data Privacy Compliance

April 1, 2020
Sowmya Kandregula
CCPA, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Members Only

Technology and distributed work environments are making businesses and startups operate on a global scale. With the advent of new channels of communication comes a complex set of challenges, one of which is conflicting business terminology and naming conventions. This problem is especially evident in compliance departments as they struggle to make sense of proliferating…

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