Information Privacy
Looking Back the Way Forward
By IGW Staff
2018 is going to be remembered for a lot of reasons, many of which are not particularly positive. Perhaps the most germane to what we care about here at InfoGov World is that 2018 marked the year when data privacy ...
NIST Privacy Framework Sets New Standards for Cyber-Insurance
By Baird Brueseke
On January 16, 2020 the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) released the first version of a voluntary privacy framework, “Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management.” This privacy framework will be widely used by ...
Privacy is for People
By Tim Patrick
Why do Companies Need Cybersecurity? Have you ever heard a company talk about privacy when they are discussing a massive hack and theft of your data? Why is cybersecurity such a buzzword when simple privacy would solve so many ...
First SoCal PrivacyOC Event Held
By Scott Allbert
The first PrivacyOC event was held in late January in Orange County, California. With a focus on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the event was brimming with attendees—and conference organizers reported that sponsorships sold out months before the ...
New Global Privacy Standard Established
By Andrew Ysasi
As privacy regulations continue to be introduced around the global, organizations now have an ISO standard they can look to for guidance. In August of 2019, ISO 27701:2019 was published and included the requirements and guidance for establishing, implementing, ...
Data Protection Market to grow 120 billion by 2023
By IGW Staff
The Data Protection Market is expected to exceed more than $120 Billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 15% in the given forecast period, according to a recent report. The report covers detailed competitive outlook including the market share and ...
BigID starts 2020 with 50 million in new funding
By IGW Staff
BigID, a leader in privacy-oriented data discovery, intelligence and automation announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding from Tiger Global, less than four months after previously raising a $50M Series C. The new capital will be ...
Real Time Data Governance New Tool Facilitates Privacy Compliance
By Ronald Van Loon
In the race to be at the top of data analytics, organizations are implementing measures that position them in a favorable spot. The key to extracting the most from your data is to have pertinent data governance policies in ...
Employee Privacy by Design
By Justine M. Phillips
On September 13, 2019, the California Senate and Assembly unanimously passed an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) that places onerous obligations on employers and entitles employees to statutory damages for data breaches. As of the date ...
Nevada Joins the Privacy Push
By IGW Staff
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 started something. Lawmakers across the USA are now thinking about data privacy and how consumer personally identifiable information (PII) can be secure, controlled, and governed. Using the CCPA as a template, considerations ...
Attorney General Becerra, Senator Jackson introduce legislation to strengthen, clarify, CALI Consumer Privacy Act
By IGW Staff
SB 561 Clarifies Attorney General’s Advisory Role, adds Private Right of Action, and Eliminates so-called “Right to Cure” SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson in February unveiled SB 561, legislation to strengthen and clarify ...
Facebook: Always Watching
By IGW Staff
Let’s be honest. Most of us use our phones for much more than making calls, checking social media, and texting friends and family. We use dozens of apps to do everything from figuring out “who that actress is on ...
Private Eyes Electronic Privacy and US Law
By Mark Driskill
The European Union, with GDPR, now has privacy regulation that is consistent and pervasive and crosses state and national boundaries. The U.S., by contrast, has a piecemeal, loose patchwork of federal and state privacy regulations that at times overlap ...
CCPA Survey by IAPP
By IGW Staff
SUMMARY RESULTS The passing of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), surprised many, even privacy professionals. Its quick journey into becoming a California law will have a far-reaching impact on many U.S. businesses. The CCPA wasn’t without issues, such ...
Protecting Digital FootPrints while you Travel
By IGW Staff
In October 2018, Cathay Pacific Airlines announced in a tweet that it discovered “unauthorized access to some of our passenger data.” (1) The breach exposed dates of birth, passport numbers, home addresses, historical passenger travel data, and other vital ...
NY Privacy Act looks to surpass Cali’s CCPA
By Andrew Ysasi
The New York Privacy Act (NYPA, or New York Senate Bill 224) introduced by state senator Kevin Thomas is much more restrictive to corporations than the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). This is a strong indicator that states are starting ...
Privacy Concerns Hit Main Street America
By Robert Smallwood
In previous issues, IG World has reported that, according to a Harris Poll published last November in USA Today, Americans are more concerned with privacy than anything else. That is, 65% of those polled stated they were more concerned about ...
GDPRs First Birthday
By Mark Driskill
As Brexit talks engulf European and UK politics, another smoldering issue threatens far-worse damage to the EU/UK relationship, and indeed the global economy. Last May, the EU implemented sweeping new data privacy and protection laws meant to protect the Personal ...
Busy Intersection – Records Management’s Intersection with Data Privacy Management
By Teresa Schoch
With the tsunamic rise in electronic information doubling at regular intervals, complexity in information management has resulted in newly created or redefined roles tasked with creating order out of chaos. Information professionals attempt to control their domains in roles ...
A Timeline of Data Privacy Fails
By IGW Staff
Facebook’s data privacy fails are increasingly well documented in the public eye. And even if some of those fails haven’t grabbed the headlines like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the tech giant certainly understands the implications. Ongoing conversations about privacy ...
Looking Back to see the Way Forward
By IGW Staff
2018 is going to be remembered for a lot of reasons, many of which are not particularly positive. Perhaps the most germane to what we care about here at InfoGov World is that 2018 marked the year when data ...
Battle of the Devices Facebook Portal takes on Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa
By Dan O'Brien
The world has changed, but privacy concerns linger, especially now that we have more and more devices to monitor how we interact. Portal, Facebook’s foray into the home messaging portal space, offers a new, shiny option. Let’s take a look ...
Is the Role of the DPO misunderstood
By Mark Driskill
Protect and Serve With minimal fanfare—but great impact—GDPR took effect last May, 2019. There is a new officer in town, an electronic privacy officer who stands guard against the misuse and abuse of electronic personal data that originates in the ...
Playing with our Emotions
By IGW Staff
Facebook is not only an unmitigated cesspool of data privacy failures, but for a time, the tech giant meddled a bit in the emotional manipulation of its users. A report, which first aired on NPR in 2012, outlined what ...
Electronic Privacy and US Law
By Mark Driskill
The European Union, with GDPR, now has privacy regulation that is consistent and pervasive and crosses state and national boundaries. The U.S., by contrast, has a piecemeal, loose patchwork of federal and state privacy regulations that at times overlap ...
Star Struck Reasonable Security under CCPA
By Justine M. Phillips
Navigating “Reasonable Security” under California’s Consumer Privacy Act California is the birthplace of stars, the Internet, and consumer privacy. In 1974, California empowered its residents with an inalienable constitutional right of privacy. Over time, that right has expanded to ...
The GDPR and the CCPA
By Michael Osterman
New data protection regulations, such as the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), lay out the legal rights held by consumers over their personal data. Entities that collect and/ or process this type of data must extend ...
Cali Privacy Act to hit financial services Firms the Hardest
By Scott Allbert
Many firms think they get a pass on CCPA. Have you heard the buzz about CCPA? Sure, most of us have heard about the new “California Consumer Privacy Act,” yet many companies will find themselves in serious trouble by not ...
GDPR One Year Later
By Richard Hogg
Psst… have a private moment? It has been a year since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live, and the world is still spinning. Let’s take a look at what transpired in the first year of ...
AI and Information Governance
By IGW Staff
Can AI Help Your Organization Achieve Its IG Goals? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of software to “learn” and make decisions based on inputs and conditions. This creates intelligent computers that can reason on a fundamental level like humans, ...
In Blockchain We Trust
By Darra Hoffman
Miracle Cure or Snake Oil? By now, we’ve all heard about blockchain technology—or least its famous progenitor, Bitcoin. According to its evangelists, blockchain technology will secure our records, protect our privacy, democratize our technology, and probably fix us a cup ...
Tools for GDPR Compliance
By IGW Staff
The Records Continuum and Technology Assisted Review With GDPR now fully implemented, there is no shortage of software offerings claiming to help businesses manage the complex regulatory environment presented to businesses outside the EU. However, IG practitioners should remember that ...
Implementing GDPR And The Need For Data Protection Officers
By Andrew Harvey, Barry Moult
But are they Paid Enough? The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is being subsumed into British domestic legislation, and is now the basis for a new Data Protection Act, replacing the old 1998 Act, itself based on a ...
Finding Facebook Fakes
By IG News
If you were to judge the effectiveness of Facebook’s efforts to combat fake profiles by the half-billion fake accounts they shut down in the first quarter of 2018, then you might conclude they are doing as promised in the face ...
Google Faces Fines
By IG News
Google has been saddled with the largest fine yet by the EU—€4.34bn ($5 Billion USD). The fine, based on the European Union’s claims, is over “serious illegal behavior” tied to how Google monopolizes its search engines on mobile phones in ...
Preserving our Privacy
By IGW Staff
A New Kind of Cold War? Most Americans don’t remember the Cold War and détente with Russia—except perhaps for a reimagining like FX’s stellar series, The Americans. However, the recent attention Russian influence has received in the media conjures the ...
GDPR Information Workflow
By IGW Staff
Electronic Privacy Act Could Have a Detrimental Impact on Businesses The GDPR May adoption date has caused many American businesses headaches as they scramble to understand how the EU approaches the electronic privacy of its citizens. An April 2018 flash ...
Prioritizing Privacy
By Dan O'Brien
How I learned that Facebook failed Unless you have been living under a rock, the recent woes experienced by tech and social media giant Facebook have dominated news cycles on days when chemical weapons, nuclear proliferation, and North Korean summits ...
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