Category: CCPA/CPRA

How to Plan for Data Privacy in Business Acquisitions

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In business, data can be an asset or a liability—and many times it can be both. For those interested in buying a business, data privacy considerations have changed in the past few years. With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and…
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How to Handle Consumer Requests Under CCPA

If you’re a frequent social media user, you’ve probably come across those Buzzfeed listicles or Twitter threads that detail unusual customer requests from food service workers. These bemused employees take to the internet to share quirky…

What Employers Need to Know About Employee Rights Under CPRA

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When the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was passed in 2018, residents of the Golden State were given the most progressive, robust data privacy rights in the entire United States. Modeled after the European Union’s General Data Protection…
What Security Professionals Need to Know About Data Privacy

What Security Professionals Need to Know About Data Privacy

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It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as an information security pro, you’re probably busy running employee trainings, writing spotlights for the company newsletter, and pitching technology upgrades to your bosses.  While you’re…

Trust: The New Currency You Should Be Investing In

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Have you ever heard the saying “money isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on?” It’s one of those idioms that’s both true and not true at the same time. We’ll never turn down a crisp $50 bill, but that bill is objectively worthless.…
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Third-Party Agreements: The Bulletproof Checklist for Evaluating Vendors

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You’re only as strong as your weakest link. And most companies are blissfully unaware of their weakest link when it comes to compliance with new and forthcoming privacy regulations. This hidden danger? Third-party agreements. Truth…
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Celebrating World Data Privacy Day in 2022 (and How You Can Make It a Data Privacy Year)

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Our favorite time of the year is finally here—and yes, we know the winter holidays have already come and gone. But as much we may love warming up with a cup of hot cocoa (topped off with unreasonable amounts of marshmallows, please!), there’s…

What Is Included in a Privacy Risk Assessment?

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Every action and adventure movie in the history of movies has a scene that looks like this: IN SECRET LAIR -- NIGHT Hilariously funny computer-nerd sidekick with crushing social anxiety is talking with an uber-suave, secret super-agent…
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Data Privacy as a Service

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There is a lot of *aaS-es in the world of cloud-based computing. No, no.  That’s not what we meant. We’re talking about X-as-a-service options. First, there was SaaS, or Software as a Service. Originating in the 1960s as terminal…
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What Is Opt-In and Opt-Out and How to Do It Right

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Until the mid-2010s, there were almost no comprehensive laws protecting digital privacy for anyone except children, and even those laws were few and far between. This lack of government oversight gave industries almost no motivation to create…