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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. These are just some examples of how organizations support data privacy , the principle that people should have control of their personal data, including who can see it, who can collect it, and how it can be used.

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A guide to the GDPR for insurance companies

IT Governance

A report published by research and consultancy company Celent highlights the challenges that the GDPR presents to insurers. Insurers are data controllers: a person, public authority, agency or body that determines the purpose of processing personal data. Steps insurers should take to become GDPR compliant.

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Developments in Health Privacy and Cybersecurity Policy and Regulation: OCR Issues Cybersecurity Warnings and New Health Data Legislation Is Introduced

Data Matters

Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued industry guidance for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) regulated entities to take preventative steps to protect against some of the more common, and often successful, cyber-attack techniques. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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CCPA: Employers Should Consider Implications for Employee Benefit Plans

Hunton Privacy

As we move closer to implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), companies should consider how the new law could affect their operations in multiple ways – including, for example, data collected through their employee benefit plans. For example, in its 2016 decision in Gobeille v.

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Privacy in an open-data world: Why government agencies need to be proactive

Collibra

The ever-growing digitalization of our world has raised significant concerns about data privacy and security, particularly for agencies that manage and process sensitive and confidential information. These frameworks narrowly focus within their domain, e.g. What is needed is a rosetta stone to help govern the privacy rules of data.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

For example, Amazon reminds customers to reorder their most often-purchased products, and shows them related products or suggestions. Smart home devices such as the iRobot Roomba can navigate a home’s interior using computer vision and use data stored in memory to understand its progress.

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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The complaint alleged that the company’s data handling practices also resulted in unauthorized disclosures of personal information. The order also, in Section IX, set forth data destruction requirements and a data retention policy.