What’s Going On With the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement?

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

The Latest With Privacy Shield On July 16, the Court of Justice for the European Union made a landmark decision to invalidate the EU-US Privacy Shield arrangement for international data transfers. Prior to this announcement, Privacy Shield was one of several mechanisms for meeting GDPR data protection requirements for data leaving the EU for the US. The Court’s decision impacts the thousands of organizations participating in and relying on Privacy…

How to Write a Privacy Policy

by Sarah Harvey / October 4, 2023

The Importance of Privacy Policies in Today’s Data-Centric Landscape It’s no secret that data is now the most valuable asset worldwide. With nearly all organizations relying on some form of data to fuel their business, consumers and policy makers have started highlighting the need to be more transparent about how they collect, use, store, and transmit data, starting with their privacy policies. Because consumers have become more interested in how…

Most Common Privacy Gaps

by Sarah Harvey / October 4, 2023

As more and more governing bodies are implementing data privacy laws, it’s becoming even more important for organizations to mitigate gaps in their systems before they are met with a data breach and hefty fines. We can see the effects laws GDPR and CCPA have had on the privacy and security landscape already. Take it from British Airways’ experience – the airline was fined $228 million for leaking 500,000 customers’…

Breach Notification in New York: The SHIELD Act

by Sarah Harvey / December 15, 2022

On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act which amends the state’s breach notification law in order to “impose stronger obligations on businesses handling private data to provide proper notification to affected consumers when there is a security breach.” The breach notification amendments took effect in October 2019, while the data security requirements will take effect on March 21,…

CCPA Compliance and Your Marketing Team

by Sarah Harvey / October 4, 2023

CCPA Implications for Marketing It’s no secret that digital marketing is undergoing a major transformation – one that is centered on giving consumers more autonomy over the way their personal information is collected, used, stored, sold, and transmitted. Last year, we saw how the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation changed the international landscape of marketing, and 2020 will be the year the US really feels the brunt of the data…