You might have recently seen that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) put an end to a digital trade agreement involving the transfer of EU data to...
Jul 28, 2020 l GDPR, Data Protection, Compliance
European Court of Justice at an Impasse with US Over Privacy Shield
Holistic security means more than just implementing one tool, one method, one solution, or one process to protect your business’s data. It means...
Jun 23, 2020 l Compliance, Data Breaches, CCPA
How to Pass the Test of “Reasonable Security” When It Comes to CCPA
Today, we see a third CCPA class action in short order, which points to very specific claims of security failure against the CCPA regulation. This...
August 15th is nearly here, and that means compliance with Brazil’s LGPD!
August 25 Update: Brazil is postponing LGPD enforcement until December 2021.
Jun 9, 2020 l Data Protection, Compliance, Healthcare
Magellan Healthcare Attack a Harsh Reminder for the Need to Be HIPAA Compliant
The healthcare industry has seen a significant change as of late. The increasing affordance of medical technology has simplified patient care by...
Jun 2, 2020 l Data Protection, Compliance
Experts Discuss: Where Data Security and Data Privacy Meet
A few weeks ago, comforte AG hosted an online webinar featuring Forrester. The focus of that presentation was the intersection point between data...
GDPR. Four letters that have supposedly changed the way data security and privacy is viewed on a global scale. Now, two years on since the European...
May 19, 2020 l Compliance, Pandemic
Reassessing Data Privacy Guidance During Coronavirus/Covid19 Pandemic
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a document called: The ICO’s regulatory approach during the coronavirus public health...
In a previous post, we looked at the highest GDPR fines to date. We thought it would be interesting to show what instigates fines like these, so now...