Is your company getting ready for the General Data Protection Regulation? If so, it might be in the minority. That's because, according to research conducted by TrustArc, the answer is likely no.
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European law firm Fieldfisher has today launched its first ever mobile app, "A Complete Guide to the GDPR".
The goal of this webinar series is to go beyond simply explaining the GDPR and its requirements. These webinars are constructed in a way to do a deeper dive on a specific topic relating to the GDPR. This series would equip Privacy Officers with advanced knowledge, case studies, tools, and techniques to deal with complex requirements within the...
The credit industry is gearing up to be rocked by three major regulatory changes to the financial services sector in the next 12 months. Eric Crabtree, global head of financial services at IT solutions company Unisys, explains how to adapt to the new regulatory environment
With one year to go, businesses are entering the audit process of getting themselves ready for GDPR
With just one year to go until the new GDPR data protection rules will come into force, new research from the DMA reveals that nearly half of businesses don't think they're going to be ready in time, with a further quarter of companies yet to even start a GDPR plan.
Reputation, jobs, customer services, data theft and legal costs are all dwarfed by the prospect of company-killing fines and it is these which are driving the moves to GDPR compliance
Germany is one step closer to new data protection rules as the German Parliament and the Federal Council have both approved the draft of a new Federal Data Protection Act (Bundestag printing matter 18/11325). The purpose of the draft is to align German data protection law to the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), which will be...
Can a CISO act as a DPO?
21/05/2017
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes, in certain cases, the appointment of a Data Protection Officer (DPO). Public and private sector organizations are struggling with the need for them to create an additional responsibility or merge it with the existing Chief Information Security Officer function (CISO). When...
Our recent study with Econsultancy, the 2017 Email Industry Census, has highlighted data as the main challenge preventing the use of more personalisation. That's not really surprising as an earlier study with the IDM showed that the majority of marketers only collect names, addresses, and phone numbers. But while collecting more and better data has...