How today’s businesses are gaining new customer insights through analytics while meeting the growing challenge of modern privacy mandates A global footwear manufacturer was recently in the news over a shoe design controversy that polarized consumers between patriotism and social justice activism. When jumping into the debate, a common conclusion is often, “Hey, they KNOW... more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—which begins enforcement on January 1, 2020—now stands ready to reform how data is handled. The goal: to improve protections for personal data and to grant consumers new, expanded rights over appropriate use of their data. The regulation will impact California businesses and others doing business with California citizens, while... more
The GDPR, the CCPA, and more privacy mandates to follow, have galvanized the enterprise need for operationalizing data privacy and protection. In conjunction with social media privacy abuses and increasing numbers of data breaches, the focus on data privacy is accelerating rapidly to become a board-level concern. Witness the growth and interest in the International Association... more
As Chief Trust Officer at Informatica, it’s my job to make sure that customers trust our global cloud services platform and software. Simply put, data privacy and security have never been more important to our customers. A study by RSA Security Research reports that roughly 70% of global consumers are prepared to boycott a company... more
We now have data lakes with petabytes of data, being updated in real time with IoT, social and mobile information. Then there are tens of thousands of users accessing the data across various lines of your business: finance, sales, marketing, service, procurement, research & development, manufacturing, logistics and distribution. At this scale the only way... more
Today’s organizations need to mobilize data governance programs and resources to tackle enterprise-wide data privacy initiatives. These ambitious initiatives—which can span thousands of data stores, people, and processes—cannot be achieved with traditional security and production models. Instead, enterprise-grade automation, powered with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), is required to provide the foundational infrastructure... more
Digital transformation – tech world’s latest buzzword is getting used by everyone and executed by few. We’re great at making up terms that sound exciting- but aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. I prefer talking about data disruption. We’re not transforming the way we use data, we’re creating new opportunities for business areas for... more
First of all, what is GDPR? GDPR is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation Act, which supersedes the 1995 Data Privacy Protection guideline. It is the Nuclear Option for the citizenry when its data is being used by non-authorized entities against their explicit wishes. As a consequence; automatic, vague opt-ins checked based on hyperlinks... more
Since the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) was formally announced as being a regulation from 25th May 2018 onwards, 3 months have passed. So what’s happened in that time? Differing responses to GDPR So depending on which part of the business you’re in, the initial response seemed to have been somewhere between panic and apathy.... more
From May 2018, the new EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) will require all Public Sector organisations to more effectively understand how they manage data on their citizens, contractors and staff. What does GDPR mean for Public Sector agencies? GDPR will introduce a new set of requirements on agencies around managing the privacy of data... more