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October 22, 2020
DSARs: What You Need to Know
A Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) is the means by which individuals request that your enterprise discloses what personal data it holds on them and how you use or intend to use it. Submitting DSARs...
October 16, 2020
What is the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and why should you pay attention to it?
Despite the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) entering enforcement only most recently, Californians are holding their breath to see whether the CCPA will become old news very fast. This is because the California Privacy Rights...
October 16, 2020
The Revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection
On 25 September 2020, the parliament of Switzerland replaced its long-existing Federal Act on Data Protection of 1992 (“1992 Law”) with a modernized version, the Federal Act on Data Protection 2020 (“revised FADP”). The referendum...
October 13, 2020
CNIL Updated Cookie Guidelines
On 1 October 2020, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) published its amended guidelines on consent in relation to cookies and other guidelines along with its practical...
October 2, 2020
IAB EU Solution: We are proud to announce that SECURITI.ai’s Consent Management Platform is officially TCF v2.0 approved by the IAB
SECURITI.ai has been working closely with IAB EU to align our solution with their TCF v2.0 framework, and we’re proud to announce that SECURITI.ai’s Consent Management Platform is officially TCF v2.0 approved by the IAB....
October 1, 2020
Irish Guidance on Consent & Cookies – Grace Period ends on 5 October
On 6 April, the Data Protection Commission of Ireland (DPC) released a substantive Guidance Note on cookies (Guidance) and provided organizations a grace period of six months to ensure compliance. After the end of...
September 7, 2020
Why you need to adopt SECURITI.ai’s Consent Management Platform
Since the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has released updated Guidelines on Consent, Consent Management Platforms (CMPs) have been reevaluating their practices in relation to governance, collection and management of users’ consent. Gone are...
September 6, 2020
Analyzing Assessments and Additional Safeguards for Cross Border Data Transfers post Schrems-II
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released a decision invalidating the US-EU Privacy Shield arrangement for transatlantic data transfers and changing obligations of data controllers when using Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)...
September 3, 2020
EDPB’s Updated Guidelines on Consent
On May 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board released updated guidelines on Consent (Guidelines). The Guidelines adhere to the requirements of consent provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the e-Privacy...
September 2, 2020
Schrems-II judgment opens door for complaints on EU-US transfers
Things are getting serious for 101 EU data controllers sending data to the US – Max Schrems’ organization “NOYB” lodges complaints with various EU authorities One month ago, the Court of Justice of the...
August 18, 2020
Thailand’s first-ever Personal Data Protection Act
The government of Thailand has passed its first-ever data protection law, the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) that came into effect in May 2020. Like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the...
August 18, 2020
The e-Privacy Directive and the e-Privacy Regulation – What to Expect
With the increase in digitalization and its impacts on the globe, a new wave of data privacy laws has emerged. Countries all across the world are increasingly acknowledging the need for the protection of...
July 28, 2020
Evolve Your Data Mapping
Whether the goal is compliance or data governance, to assess risk and apply necessary controls, organizations must be able to accurately track a piece of information (data) from its point of collection to its...
July 20, 2020
New Dubai Data Protection Law
In this era where data privacy regulations are sprouting up almost daily, another city has taken data privacy rights into consideration and devised a law that resembles the likes of GDPR. In 2004, Dubai’s International...
July 20, 2020
The Privacy Shield has been broken: What’s Next?
In a major upset, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited, Maximilian Schrems (Case C-311/18) (or colloquially referred to as Schrems-II in the privacy community)...
July 8, 2020
Practical Implementation of the Changes Introduced by New Zealand’s New Privacy Act
The Privacy Act 2020 was passed by the New Zealand Government in June 2020. The new Act will introduce several key changes that will significantly improve privacy protections for individuals in New Zealand. Organisations will...
June 23, 2020
10 Tips to Prepare for CCPA Enforcement
With the July 1 enforcement date fast approaching, California's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has finalized the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA or the “Act”). Several sections of the finalized Act are critical to...
May 29, 2020
The Solution to Overcoming Healthcare Compliance Challenges
In 2009 fewer than 46% of all medical providers in the United States used electronic records, with the majority still using paper patient records, faxes, and handwritten charts. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
April 29, 2020
6 Keys to Automating the DSAR Process Under CCPA
In our previous blog post “How to Manage DSARs Under CCPA Efficiently and Effectively” we defined and discussed Data Subject Access Rights or DSARs under the CCPA legislation. We provided information and guidelines that should...
March 18, 2020
How to Manage DSARs Under CCPA Efficiently and Effectively
Many business owners, compliance professionals, and IT security staff have been scrambling to deal with the impact that GDPR had when it took effect on May 25th, 2018. Over 12 significant fines have been levied...
March 3, 2020
SECURITI.ai named “Most Innovative Startup 2020” for AI-Powered PrivacyOps, by RSAC 2020
We are excited to be named “Most Innovative Startup 2020” as winner of the RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest. We have always admired this competition, as it is based on a set of criteria that...
January 9, 2020
Accelerating business value with PrivacyOps
If you’re reading this, you care about data privacy. Maybe you care about it in the scope of your job responsibilities, or perhaps you care about it personally: in the scope of your own personal...
December 17, 2019
When it Comes to CCPA, Manual Methods Can Kill You
To comply with modern regulations like CCPA, we need to rethink privacy. Privacy needs to be operationalized with automated discovery of each individual’s data across structured and unstructured systems and layers of automation and orchestration...
December 11, 2019
4 Types of Personal Data Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Organizations collect and store vast amounts of people’s data to provide services and enhance those over time. Consumers, on the other hand, are usually unaware of what data is being collected or used as long...
December 2, 2019
Wall Street Journal Highlights How SECURITI.ai Can Help Companies Comply with CCPA and Data-Privacy Laws
With the CCPA just around the corner and all the regulations that come along with it, companies are scrambling to stay compliant. Failure to do so can lead to fines up to $7,500 per affected...
