Category: GDPR

Third-party agreements

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 is,…
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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…

Doing the Right Thing as Marketers to Build Trust

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Hint: privacy is the right thing.  Do the right thing as marketers to build trust. —Jon Dick, VP Marketing, Hubspot For marketers, privacy can be a four-letter word. After all, your entire job is to get your message in front of as…
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Checkout This Privacy Checklist for Ecommerce

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Ecommerce is big business. Really big business. Across the entire world. In 2020, retail sales in the US declined 10.5% while ecommerce sales grew 18%.  Another statistic?  Over 2.14 billion people are expected to spend $4.2 trillion…
cpa data privacy best practices

CPA Privacy Best Practices

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Whether you work alone or for a big firm, as a certified public accountant, you know privacy is important. But with new privacy laws being passed every year, it’s about to be more important than ever. While laws protecting consumers’…
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Data Mapping Best Practices

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When you go on a road trip, you need to know where you’re going and how you’re going to get there. When you are building a data privacy and security program, you need to know the same things. How to Plan Your Data Mapping Road Trip Anyone…
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Data Privacy & ESG

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By now, you’ve likely heard talk about how important good data privacy practices are in today’s business environment. But it can be a lot of work to keep up with all the legislative changes guiding data security and management when you are…