Data subject access requests (DSARs), or subject rights requests (SRRs), are evolving.
Whether your organization is based out of the EU, the US, or elsewhere in the world, consumers’ awareness and expectations are...more
Subject rights requests can be confusing for everybody involved.
Some consumers are savvy privacy advocates and expect their requests to be fulfilled to the letter. Others are just learning that they have subject rights...more
“Don’t Mess with Texas.”
It’s an evocative phrase, which is probably why it survived so long past its humble origins as a 1980s campaign slogan to discourage drivers from littering on Texan highways....more
Heraclitus said that “The only constant in life is change,” but privacy professionals don’t need to turn to ancient Greek philosophy to grasp this concept. We can just use our eyes and observe our colleagues, industry,...more
Businesses in the US will be subject to a lot more scrutiny from consumers and regulators in 2025. With eight new data privacy laws going into effect over the course of the year, attorneys general will be eager to show...more
If you’re feeling out of the loop about Chrome’s personal data collection, you’re not the only one. Google had announced that it would be deprecating third-party cookies. Then it delayed the deprecation. Then they called the...more
In our recent webinar, It’s Time to Think About Data Mapping Differently, a poll revealed some interesting information: Nearly 50 percent of respondents house their data map in a spreadsheet. (Roughly 15 percent say they...more
If you’re a data person, or even if you’re not, you may have heard the statistic cited by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google: “There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through...more
It’s official. Kentucky will join Indiana, New Hampshire, and a slew of other states with the enactment of a comprehensive data privacy act.
The Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA)–at least this iteration of...more
Most people find data privacy compliance to be complicated enough. So, when they encounter the concept of data mapping—something that isn’t an explicit requirement in any data privacy law—many find themselves scratching their...more
Preference centers sit at the intersection of user experience and compliance. Whether you’re a compliance professional, marketer, or engineer, a well-designed preference center can help you make an impact on how your audience...more
For your business’s audience, choice and control are paramount. Nobody likes having no say in how they engage with a business or what that business does with their information....more
CPRA enforcement has gone through many twists and turns over the years, and it’s completely reasonable to be a bit confused about what’s happened.
After a last-minute reversal, the CPRA is fully enforceable as of July...more
Consumers in the Garden State now have comprehensive data privacy protections. But what does that mean for New Jerseyans?
With Gov. Phil Murphy signing Senate Bill 332 (S332/A1971), businesses and entities such as...more
Wouldn’t life be easier if you could just drop whatever cookies you liked onto your website visitors’ browsers? After all, cookies are nothing more than strings of text—you could have your website use dozens of cookies and it...more
Running a business is complex, and there is no end to the number of different domains that you’ll need to be familiar with if you want to be successful. Data privacy professionals might not need to ask what data privacy...more
Dark patterns, also known as deceptive design or deceptive patterns, are essentially tricks. Websites and apps use dark patterns to manipulate users into making decisions they wouldn’t have otherwise made—like subscribing to...more
Today, it’s borderline impossible to run a business without relying on a SaaS solution of some sort.
The average business relies on 130 different SaaS vendors. Year over year, those businesses increase their spend on...more
Indiana is now part of a growing list of states that extend data protection to its residents, all thanks to the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (INCDPA). Just like other states, they're making sure consumers have their...more
The patchwork of U.S. states enacting consumer data privacy laws continues to expand with the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA). T
he law is being touted as “the strongest data privacy bill in the nation.”...more
On May 19, 2023, Montana officially became the ninth state to approve a state-level consumer data privacy law, joining the trend of states opting not to wait for a federal privacy law to mandate the protection of its...more
In the absence of a federal privacy law, states have been enacting their own, creating a patchwork of compliance laws with their own nuances.
On June 18, 2023, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot signed the Texas Data Privacy and...more
Any business interested in serving the fifth largest economy in the world needs to become compliant with the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). But that’s easier said than done.
The law has so many individual...more
GDPR compliance can be tricky.
Even if you summon the willpower to read through the law’s text, it can be tough to know where to start. As an alternative to pouring through the GDPR’s legalese, one way to establish a...more
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What if your city no longer had to put up speed limit signs? The police would still know what the speed limit was on a given stretch of road, but drivers would just have to guess. If you got a ticket for speeding, you’d feel...more