Data Protection Archives

Why 83 Percent of Financial Organizations Plan to Invest in Data Rights Management

October 28, 2020
Max Totsky
Consumer Privacy, Data Mapping and Inventory, Data Protection, Data Rights Management (DRM)
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There’s no question that global data privacy legislation is in a state of flux. Europe, California and Brazil have all recently passed legislation granting consumers certain data rights. With consumers around the world submitting requests to correct, access, and delete…

Everything You Need to Know About California’s Proposition 24

October 13, 2020
Max Totsky
CCPA, Consumer Privacy, Data Privacy, Data Protection

The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) may get an update if Californians vote “yes” on Proposition 24 this election day. The ballot measure, also known as “CCPA 2.0” will determine whether or not the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPRA) becomes law, effectively replacing CCPA. The law, which qualified for the November ballot by…

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The US Senate Proposes a Federal Data Privacy Law

September 29, 2020
Max Totsky
Data Privacy, Data Protection, US Regulatory
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Last week, Senate Republicans added to the growing pile of federal data privacy legislation drafts. The bill, known as the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act (the SAFE Data Act), is a stab at…

The Role of a Data Protection Officer

September 22, 2020
Max Totsky
Data Protection, DPO, GDPR, Governance, Hiring

Privacy regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, more recently, Dubai’s Data Processing Law (DPL 2020) make it mandatory for organizations to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO). Under GDPR, a DPO is required for any organization that consistently monitors EU-based data subjects on a large scale. This might exclude smaller…

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A Blueprint for a Federal Privacy Law in the U.S.

August 26, 2020
Max Totsky
Data Privacy, Data Protection, Podcast, State Laws, US Regulatory
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While most organizations in the U.S. comply with some set of regulations on a state or international level, the United States has yet to establish itself as a world data privacy leader with a set of federal regulations. Yet many…

OCC Fines Capital One: Key Takeaways

August 11, 2020
Max Totsky
Banks, Breach prevention, Breach response, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Financial Services, Uncategorized

Last year, Capital One experienced one of the largest-ever data breaches of a bank, when a hacker–Paige Thompson–got her hands on the personal information of over 106 million customers and applicants via a misconfigured AWS server. Now, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has hit the bank with a whopping $80 million…

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How to Manage Third-Party Risk With Increased Number of Remote Workers

July 9, 2020
Max Totsky
Business Continuity, Compliance, COVID-19, Data Protection, Resilience, Third Party Compliance, Work from Home

Any compliance officer knows the importance of third-party risk management (TPRM)–and that keeping vendors in compliance with data privacy and protection laws is a continuous process. But, since the Covid-19 pandemic has forced most businesses to work remotely, overseeing vendor compliance has become much more difficult due to lack of a centralized operation. That’s in…

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Breaking Down the EasyJet Hack

June 9, 2020
Max Totsky
Breach prevention, Breach response, Data Protection, GDPR, Governance

Earlier this month, European budget airline EasyJet was hacked. In a “highly sophisticated attack,” 9 million customers had personal information, including email addresses and travel itineraries, compromised. And 2,208 customers had their credit card information stolen. The attack has left many customers “in limbo”, with many questioning how a company that claimed to comply with…

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Privacy Cages: The End of Data Privacy Laws?

June 3, 2020
Tim Crino
Data Privacy, Data Protection, Members Only

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 programming interface) for data privacy.” The company, founded by Shane Curran, has a simple manifesto:…

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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, Members Only, Uncategorized

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 learning models trained with user interaction from mobile devices would adopt federated learning while, in…

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