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GDPR Preparation Planning Checklist
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is bringing about a lot of changes online. Cookie banners are going up, individuals are exercising their data rights, and subscribers are being asked to refresh their consent. You've read about the GDPR. You know the implications for your business. You have a handle...
GDPR Readiness Checklist
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a very significant law. It introduces new consumer rights, holds businesses to a higher standard of data protection, and requires security measures to be built into information systems by design. One of the main reasons that so many companies are rushing to comply...
GDPR Data Breach Notice Letter
Two of the most important principles of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are transparency and accountability. You must keep people informed about the ways in which you're processing their personal data. And you are accountable to your Data Protection Authority (DPA - referred to in the text of the...
GDPR Data Processing Agreement Template
Complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can take a lot of work. You have to make sure that you're processing your users' personal data transparently, storing it securely, and only asking them for the information that you actually need. But that's just part of what's required. You're also...
GDPR Data Protection Policy
In the first eight months of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 59,000 data breaches were reported. Initially, this sounds somewhat worrying. Are data protection standards falling short? Are there some serious flaws in the data security infrastructure? Have cybercriminals suddenly got a lot more sophisticated? These concerns may be...
How the CCPA is Different from the GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), often said to be the world's toughest privacy law, took full effect in May 2018. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), easily the strictest general privacy law in the United States, passed soon after in June 2018. It took effect in January 2020....