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...
Feb 25, 2020 l Data Protection, Compliance, Data Breaches
Almost 60% of UK Consumers Affected by Data Breaches in 2019
The number of data breaches that took place around the world in 2019 surpassed all previous years, with a total of 7,098 detected breaches. Although...
Feb 18, 2020 l GDPR, Data Protection, Compliance, Data Breaches, Cloud Computing
Is the US Ready for Centralized Data Privacy Enforcement?
The recent news about a proposed bill to create a central data privacy enforcing body shines another spotlight on the high-risk, high stakes shifting...
Data Privacy Day is a reminder for just how unsecure our digital lives really are. Normally, I comment on data protection and privacy for businesses...