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Wondering which data privacy laws affect your area or the type of data you're working with? Find out with this glossary of rules from around the world. The United States is increasingly alone in not having a single overarching data privacy law as more countries adopt new statutes that have much in common with the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation.
While companies should focus on data privacy all the time, Data Privacy Day on Jan. 28 is a good opportunity to reassess your business privacy strategies and learn some new methods to safeguard data. We gathered a roundup of insights from 10 industry experts with diverse backgrounds to present for Data Privacy Day.
It may be Data Privacy Day, but security experts say privacy should become a daily, defined practice affecting almost all aspects of an organization and no longer just a part of compliance, legal, or auditing disciplines. Here are the top 5 reasons data privacy should be practiced every day.
It's January 28th 2021, which means Data Privacy Day is upon us once again. It's good that we have this day to draw attention to data protection and have the conversation around privacy, but have you ever stopped to consider who's listening? If today's goal is to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust, this article aims to shine a light on the threat that smart devices might pose to our privacy.
The survey report also explores past and future trends in privacy, offering insights into privacy workforce and skills, the use of privacy by design, and the organizational structure and composition of privacy teams. Survey findings-gathered in Q3 2020 from 1,873 professionals who work in data privacy or have knowledge of their organizations' data privacy functions-show some positive trends for those enterprises who report they always use privacy by design.
Gay dating app Grindr faces a fine of more than $10 million from Norwegian regulators for failing to get consent from users before sharing their personal information with advertising companies, in breach of stringent European Union privacy rules. The Norwegian data privacy watchdog said Tuesday that it notified Grindr LLC of its draft decision to issue a fine for 100 million Norwegian krone, equal to 10% of the U.S. company's global revenue.
Mozilla this week announced further improvements to user privacy in Firefox, through the isolation of network connections and caches, thus essentially cracking down on supercookies. Specifically, Firefox 85 is arriving with an updated network architecture, where network connections and caches are isolated to the website being visited.
Data privacy has become a top area of responsibility for security professionals, and 34% of respondents to a survey indicated privacy is one of their core competencies and responsibilities. Ahead of Data Privacy Day on Jan. 28, Cisco's 2021 Data Privacy Benchmark Report also finds that 74% of more than 4,400 security professionals surveyed last summer from 25 countries saw a direct correlation between privacy investments and the ability to mitigate security losses.
Professionals union Prospect warned that the UK was at risk of 'sleepwalking into a world of surveillance' as more businesses turn to digital tools to keep tabs on remote workers. With employers no longer able to oversee work directly, some have turned to software as a means of keeping tabs on what their employees are up to.
Stealthbits unveiled its new Data Privacy Engine that connects user identities with the locations of their personal data to elevate data access governance. "Our new Data Privacy Engine is the first solution to proactively understand how data is connected to identities, enabling near-instantaneous answers to DSARs. This means our customers can address both data security and data privacy simultaneously, which we believe are two sides of the same coin."