Privacy

What Is Personal Data?

Everything Well, more or less. A touch flippant perhaps, probably not what you expected, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t what you hoped for. There it is though, I respect you all too much to sugar coat it, I expect a fair few would call me out on it if I tried to. There’s a […]
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Introduction To Privacy #1

Editor’s Note: Sometimes we come across articles we wished we had written ourselves. This series from Dan Chapman looks very promising. We will do our best to post all modules as Dan publishes them. Enjoy!   Module 1:          Foundations Lesson:             Thinking Styles and What is a Data Subject? Introduction Now Introductions are out of the way […]
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Standardization landscape for privacy: Part 1 — The NIST Privacy Framework

Standards and frameworks provide real benefits for privacy management. Standards are established norms to be applied consistently across organizations, while frameworks are a set of basic guidelines to be adapted to an organization’s needs. Both can help to fulfill compliance obligations, build trust, benchmark against industry best practices, support strategic planning and evaluation, enable global […]
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The Great Privacy Awakening

The consumer privacy awakening has begun. Slowly but surely, individuals are realizing that what they thought was privacy, is not actually what the data protection and privacy laws are out to protect. They are beginning to see the complex “surveillance system” that profiles them on a constant basis and trades openly to “sell them more […]
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