GDPR vs CCPA Compliance, All in One Place

Article was originally published on Very Good Security. In our last blog post about CCPA, we went into the details of California’s comprehensive privacy law, more formally known as the California Consumer Privacy Act. Coming into effect January 1, 2020, the new privacy law pertain to companies that collect data from California residents, regardless of the […]

GDPR Infringement? Lufthansa Passengers Have to Take a Selfie to Prove they Are Real and Get a Refund

Article was originally published on ClaimCompass. Quietly and without any mention in their Terms and Conditions, the German national carrier now requires its passengers to provide a selfie of themselves holding their ID next to their face before issuing a refund for a delayed, cancelled or overbooked flight. In the above email, Lufthansa’s Customer Relations […]

Understanding the GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation

Article was originally published at TenFold. The GDPR–or General Data Protection Regulation–is a regulation passed by the European Union on April 27, 2016, with an effective start date of May 25, 2018. Officially classified as regulation 2016/679, the GDPR expands upon and replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC of 1995. It serves as the EU’s effort to synchronize […]

Demystifying GDPR: Separating fact from fiction

GUEST: GDPR has a serious PR problem. From the dominating narrative surrounding this impending law, you would think it’s ominously looming over organizations across the globe like the sinister, tentacled black cloud monster that terrorizes the kids from “Stranger Things.” It is true that no one really knows exactly what is going to happen once […]

Worried about GDPR? Just build radically private software

GUEST: On May 25, the European Union (EU) will begin enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires companies to behave responsibly in their collection and management of personal data. Penalties for noncompliance include fines up to four percent of global revenue, adding to the damage that data breaches can do to customer c…Read […]

Facebook explains how it will comply with the EU’s GDPR

After a lot of scandal and a great deal of confusion, Facebook has finally made clear what its privacy settings will look like in the wake of Europe’s forthcoming GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation). In a news release, the company said that everyone, no matter where they live, will be asked to review information […]

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has no plans to extend Europe’s GDPR privacy law globally

(Reuters) — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday the social network had no immediate plans to apply a strict new European Union law on data privacy in its entirety to the rest of the world, as the company reels from a scandal over its handling of personal information of millions of its users. […]

3 GDPR blind spots to avoid

GUEST: The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into enforcement in four short months, and many are talking about the regulation as if it were a natural disaster: “Are you ready for GDPR?” While there’s no need for panic — especially if you’re already working towards compliance — there are a few elements […]