Privacy

COVID-19 may have slowed down business, but it hasn’t slowed down time. Meeting the deadlines to demonstrate compliance with cybersecurity regulations and certification standards under pandemic conditions is proving to be a challenge for some companies. A survey of 100 North American CISOs that was conducted last June and whose findings were…

Apple’s iOS 14, which was released last week, offers new privacy controls that limit how different parts of your phone are used to track you. The most impactful feature, the ability to limit how much of your personal data is shared with companies was shelved until early next year after…

New York (CNN Business)Coffee shops have used loyalty programs to learn more about their customers and keep them coming back for years. Now, as consumers embrace digital payments during the pandemic, the trend is spreading to restaurant chains who want the same benefits. Earlier this month, White Castle announced the launch…

A radical “pro-tech” plan championed by Dominic Cummings to rewrite Britain’s data protection laws is endangering future cooperation with the EU worth billions to the British economy, Brussels has warned. The government’s newly published national data strategy, promising a “transformation” long sought by Boris Johnson’s chief adviser and the former…

Following a year of uncertainty regarding the date of implementation, Brazil’s General Data Protection Law has officially come into effect. Although Brazil is no stranger to sectoral privacy laws and already had more than 40 laws and norms at the federal level, the LGPD is the country’s first law to provide a…

The U.S. Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act (SAFE DATA) represents the latest stage of evolution in omnibus federal privacy legislation. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, and co-sponsored by several other…

The unexpected Schrems II decision was a major blow to digital trade across the Atlantic, invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement and forcing companies to very quickly revamp their data handling processes. There was some question as to whether this ruling would extend to the similar Switzerland-US Privacy Shield agreement,…

Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world, according to an explosive memo sent by a recently fired Facebook employee and obtained by BuzzFeed News. The 6,600-word memo, written by former Facebook data…

Facebook has significant concerns about its ability to deliver its services to its 400 million European users over the Data Protection Commissioner’s decision regarding the transfer of data to the social media giant’s US parent, the High Court has heard. Late last month the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) informed Facebook…

This series by the team at Sentinel examines the rationale and benefits of building a culture of privacy in your organization by highlighting five organizational drivers that, in combination, can result in lasting change. In this final article, we’ll provide a look at how a culture of privacy can help…