Data privacy describes a set of principles and guidelines to ensure the respectful processing, protection, and handling of sensitive data linked to a person. This concept ties to who can define, observe, use, and control a person’s information and how. Typically, privacy spans two types of levels: implicit rules and written legislation. Implicit rules cover norms, behaviors, and values […]
CCPA vs. GDPR: Differences and Similarities for Data Protection
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) were created to empower individuals with greater control over their personal information. Both laws regulate the activities of organizations that collect and use data in various ways. Data protection plays an essential role in ensuring compliance with both privacy regulations. CCPA vs. […]
The Future of Data Modeling in Data Governance
The process of Data Modeling is playing an increasingly important role when creating or improving a Data Governance program. Data Governance has become extremely complex, and the use of Data Modeling promotes understanding. One basic reason for the increasing complexity is the expanding use of data analytics for purposes of research. Another reason is complying […]
How Data Privacy Regulations Impact Network Security
Network security uses physical and software security solutions to protect network infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, failure, alteration, disruption, or unauthorized disclosure of sensitive data. Network security involves implementing security policies, procedures, and tools to prevent unauthorized persons and programs from accessing a network, connected devices, and network traffic. Network security applies to both public […]
A Root-Cause Framework for Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy
When the United States and the European Commission together announced a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework earlier this year, the news didn’t raise too many eyebrows. After all, there’s nothing particularly objectionable about the new framework – the goal is to “foster trans-Atlantic data flows” and address concerns about the underlying EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, and who […]
Most U.S. Companies Still Not Prepared for GDPR or CCPA Compliance
Even though the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect four years ago and a hundred other countries have adopted stringent data privacy laws, the U.S. is lagging behind without a federal data privacy rights regulation. California has taken the lead at the state level, the first to adopt the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018, with Virginia […]
How to Become a Data Governance Lead
The Data Governance lead is responsible for the systems and rules used to ensure data is legal, well-organized, safe, accessible, and valuable. They are responsible for developing and communicating Data Governance policies. Because Data Governance covers a wide range of responsibilities, a variety of people are involved, and the Data Governance lead manages how they […]
Data Privacy Has Become a Human Right
A deep history of pivotal moments gave root to our modern idea of human rights. Ancients like King Hammurabi set in stone (literally) some parts of the idea that every person has basic rights and freedom. Along the way, the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Virginia Declaration of Rights, and U.S. Bill of Rights […]
For Cloud Adopters, Data Privacy Day Is an Occasion for Both Hesitancy and Hope
Data Privacy Day is an occasion that brings decidedly mixed emotions for those who rely on the cloud to do business. On the one hand, it’s a day to celebrate the importance of data privacy and the very real advances that have been made by enterprises to ensure it. On the other hand, it’s a […]
Data Governance Tools Support Data Management
Data Governance, and the tools supporting it, reflect the growing importance of “automated services” when dealing with the laws and regulations that have been developed to protect privacy and societal norms. Data Governance has become a necessity for organizations using the internet. It is a collection of rules, policies, and standards designed to improve Data […]