The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — the compliance regulation that caused consternation in organizations worldwide, before and after it went live on May 25, 2018 — is starting to live up to its reputation of being a fearless defender of customer data and privacy rights.
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Many enterprises don’t believe they have a GDPR problem. Most enterprises think they have it under control. However, figures in the recent DLA Piper data breach survey show that many companies were unprepared for it.
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On Feb. 7, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO), the Bundeskartellamt, imposed far-reaching restrictions on Facebook's processing of user data. The action followed several years of investigations and an announcement earlier in the year that such a decision would be coming. The FCO is Germany's independent anti-trust regulator.
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Earlier this week, the CNIL — France’s data protection authority (DPA), which is responsible for monitoring and enforcing privacy rights in the country — fined Google $57 million, citing a lack of transparency and valid consent regarding the personalizing of its ads, as well as providing inadequate information.
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Amazon recently sent a German man someone else's data in response to his personal data request, made in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Amazon blamed it on "human error." By blaming it on human error, Amazon is trying to imply this is an isolated case.
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It was a pivotal year for data privacy. Companies small, large and gargantuan prepared for new legislation emanating from the US and Europe in the form of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and the ePrivacy Directive (ePR).
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Three years ago, in her final CMSWire column of 2015, Dana Simberkoff suggested businesses should familiarize themselves with a new regulation: the European General Data Protection Regulation.
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2018 has been a remarkable year for technology, with progress (and setbacks) being made across many areas. So rather than hazard some predictions for 2019 on my own, I asked some of my colleagues in our Chief Technology Office to weigh in on next year’s prognostication.
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Ethics hardly seems to be a priority among businesses today. And as executive teams increasingly charge marketing departments with driving revenue, it’s easy to see how marketers lose sight of the big picture: what’s good for customers is good for business. The rise of data-privacy regulations is evidence of this.
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As the dust still settles on the enactment of Europe’s data privacy rights earlier this year, US companies are bracing for a fresh round of compliance hype — and this time it hits closer to home.
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