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Privacy RegulationsA recent opinion from CJEU Advocate-General Maciej Szpunar signals a potential shift in how European courts evaluate bulk metadata collection. The key question is no longer whether you collect metadat
Privacy RegulationsThese questions come from discussions with privacy officers over the past year. You re not just asking about what happened in 2019, you re trying to figure out what it means for your program in 2020 a
Privacy RegulationsThe Conventional Wisdom When COVID-19 hit, many privacy thought leaders advocated for Chief Privacy Officers to have a seat at the executive table. The idea was that during crises, rapid data-sharing
Privacy RegulationsPurpose of the Template When your school collects health screening data at entry points, you re handling sensitive data under GDPR Article 9 and U.S. state laws. This intake form template helps you do
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Privacy RegulationsWhat Happened On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield framework in its Schrems II decision. This ruling highlighted a major issue: organizatio
Privacy RegulationsIn every planning meeting, board presentation, and budget negotiation, privacy compliance is often framed as the enemy of innovation. You ve heard it: We can t move fast if we re buried in consent for
Privacy RegulationsWhat Changed California s legislature is processing several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) before its 2020 effective date. Mary Stone Ross, co-author of the CCPA ballot initi
Privacy RegulationsThe Legislative Wave In early 2021, six U.S. states, Washington, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, and Virginia, introduced comprehensive privacy legislation almost simultaneously. Each stat
Privacy RegulationsThe era of a unified U.S. state privacy law has ended. In 2024, seven states passed new privacy laws, bringing the total to 19. These laws diverged from the Washington State Privacy Act framework that
Privacy RegulationsYour team manages data across borders. If India or Vietnam is part of your processing footprint, or on your expansion roadmap, you now face two new compliance regimes with hard deadlines and specific
Privacy RegulationsPrivacy by design isn t just for new projects anymore. You re dealing with systems built before the GDPR existed, before detailed consent tracking, and before automated decision-making became a regula
Privacy RegulationsIf you re tracking the SAFE Data Act , you know the stakes: a unified federal standard could replace the state-by-state patchwork your team manages today. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Scienc
