Privacy

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…

VENMO’S BAFFLING DECISION to turn payments into a social media feed, where public transactions are the default, has rightly been met with criticism. But at the very least, it’s always been possible to make Venmo transactions private. Now, imagine a financial system that’s not just public by default, but can’t ever be made private,…

The risks of falling short on privacy compliance are greater than they have ever been.  New laws are going into effect around the world and in the states, enforcement agencies are exercising their authority and media organizations have teams devoted to identifying data protection failures. Legal judgments can run into…

Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok. The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that…

With heightened consumer consciousness about data privacy, regulators are moving fast to protect the data dignity of their citizens. Amid this wave of new regulations, businesses are looking for the responsible path forward with data privacy programs that operationalize privacy across the data ecosystem. Building sustainable solutions for privacy requires…

Remote hiring is an incredible opportunity for companies to hire talent anywhere around the world. Shifting to a remote workforce has many advantages like increased productivity and lower traditional operation costs. Teams also prefer working in a remote setup because it offers flexibility and better work-life balance.  As more and…

Identity and privacy have always been a point of contention both online and offline. But while we can generally control our identity and privacy in the offline world with ease, digital identity has long been controlled by third-party entities we interact with and promise to keep our data safe. History…

Summary: After two decades of data management being a wild west, consumer mistrust, government action, and competition for customers are bringing in a new era. Firms that generate any value from personal data will need to change the way they acquire it, share it, protect it, and profit from it.…

One cryptography expert said that ‘serious flaws’ in the way Samsung phones encrypt sensitive material, as revealed by academics, are ’embarrassingly bad.’ Samsung shipped an estimated 100 million smartphones with botched encryption, including models ranging from the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year’s Galaxy S21. Researchers at Tel…

WaffOzzy/Getty Images Summary: After two decades of data management being a wild west, consumer mistrust, government action, and competition for customers are bringing in a new era. Firms that generate any value from personal data will need to change the way they acquire it, share it, protect it, and profit from…