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GDPR compliance checklist

IBM Big Data Hub

However, GDPR compliance is not necessarily a straightforward matter. The law outlines a set of data privacy rights for users and a series of principles for the processing of personal data. The stakes are high, and the GDPR imposes significant penalties for non-compliance. They merely need to be EEA residents.

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Big California Privacy News: Legislative and Enforcement Updates

Data Matters

Privacy never sleeps in California. In recent days and as California’s legislative session comes to a close, there have been a number of significant legislative and regulatory developments in the state, each of which will likely (again) change the privacy landscape in California and, by extension, the rest of the country.

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Protecting or Posturing: What's Acceptable in New Data Privacy Practices

AIIM

Prompted by new concerns about digital privacy and ethics, The State of Virginia recently became the second state, behind California, to adopt a comprehensive consumer data privacy law. The AIIM community has been engaged in the personal data privacy conversation for a while now.

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Privacy Shield shafted – but do SCCs really deliver better privacy protections?

Data Protector

Presumably, most of the companies that have used the Privacy Shield will decide to adopt the SCC approach. Then, they can wait nervously for the European Commission to tweak the texts of the SCCs, and embark on another repapering exercise. To be honest, I’ve not dealt with many companies that have relied on the Privacy Shield.

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CIPL Releases Report on Effective Data Privacy Accountability

Hunton Privacy

On June 3, 2020, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP published its report, What Good and Effective Data Privacy Accountability Looks Like: Mapping Organizations’ Practices to the CIPL Accountability Framework (“Report”). Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

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Texas enacts comprehensive privacy law

Data Protection Report

The new law also requires that “appeal process must be conspicuously available and similar to the process for initiating action to exercise consumer rights by submitting a request.” The notice must be posted in the same location and in the same manner as the privacy notice. “If

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CCPA compliance: A sustainable approach

Collibra

CCPA stands for California Consumers Privacy Act (2018), intended to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for residents of California, United States. . Businesses are required to give consumers notice explaining their privacy practices and not discriminate against consumers for exercising their rights under the CCPA.