Some of our Thoughts.
In the last eight years or so global Privacy regulation has called for a huge change in the way businesses approach customer data through their products, services, advertisements and general technology. The rise in microservices architectures has also led to larger attack surfaces and has made Privacy-by-design harder yet more necessary to implement across networks of applications and platforms.
Data Shipping: Are you shipping PII across borders?
In today’s world, moving and sharing data containing personally identifiable information (PII) is commonplace. However, due to recent rulings this...
Data Protection Day: Are You Doing Enough?
January 28th is the 16th annual Data Protection Day. Founded to celebrate the anniversary of Convention 108, the first major...
Eliminate Your Business’ Risk of a Data Breach
For the world’s leading businesses, data is arguably its most important asset, but while it provides a great opportunity for...
The Future of Personal Data Protection, Consent and Permissions
More data is being collected about people by organisations than ever before – in this ever-increasingly data-rich landscape, businesses have...
CMO vs. DPO: The War Over Data Protection Within Your Organisation
From understanding market trends to connecting with customers, and improving internal processes, data is incredibly important for organisations of every...
GDPR Compliance Two Years on: What’s The Situation?
May 2020 marks two years since the EU’s GDPR regulation became enforceable. The legislation created a new standard for global...
How Will the Uptake of Digital Services Due to Covid-19 Impact Online Privacy?
Covid-19 has seen countries around the globe introduce social distancing, self-isolation, and lockdowns on an unprecedented scale. Naturally, these measures...
MDMs Do Not Solve Personal Data Privacy
An MDM’s goal is to master data, to have all systems and processes come to it for their data needs...
Sharing Personal Data Across Borders is Dangerous
July 16th saw the announcement of the long-awaited ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over...
Personal Data: Toxic or Non-Toxic
In today’s world, consumer data is without question one of a business’s most valuable assets. When used correctly, data powers...
Decentralised vs Centralised Consent: The Dangers and Benefits
In a world governed by strict Data Protection Regulations, decentralised consent leads to greater risk of data misuse, data breaches,...
Build vs Buy: Why You Should Never Build for Privacy
In a world of budget cuts, in which companies increasingly seem to be asked to do more with less, companies...
The case of Morgan Stanley: The need for Enterprise Data Retention Programmes
Last week saw confirmation of Morgan Stanley’s $60 million USD fine for having failed to ‘effectively assess or address risks...
Is your Privacy Platform your biggest risk?
Since the arrival of regulations such as the GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and POPIA, Data Privacy and Ethics teams have become...
Cookies, Cookies, Cookies.
The original intent when creating cookies was apparently somewhat innocent: to allow sites to store persistent information about the user...
Privacy and Customer Experience: Showing your Customer you Care
Businesses have had, until recently, little motivation to truly put Privacy strategies at the core of their customer experiences. Although...
CPRA – What’s New?
November 3rd, 2020 saw the passing of the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act into law. We’ve put together an...
Data Tracing: businesses now need to understand where their customer data is going
Knowing where data sits in your businesses is a hard question for many companies to answer. Global Privacy regulation now...
DSR automation, the right way
Two years on from the GDPR businesses should by now be familiar with the concept of Data Subject Access Requests...
The Commercial Potential of Enterprise Data Privacy
Compliance with Data Privacy regulation is now a universal reality for businesses. It is rare today that a business is...
You Don’t Need Personal Data to Build a Personal Service
The arrival of Global Privacy regulation and its enterprise-wide implications means that businesses are building Privacy as a service, not...
Build Trust With Risk-Free Customer Data Management Platform
In our data-led world, building trust is quickly becoming the most crucial component for business success. Trust with customers. Trust...