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Making Privacy an Essential Business Process

Canada is poised to become a world-leader in privacy regulation and with new regulation comes record-breaking fines for those who can’t keep up. In November, Canada introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act. If passed, companies could face fines of up to five percent of global revenue or $25 million CAD — whichever is greater — for violating Canadians’ privacy.

From GDPR to CCPA, the right to data access is the achille's heel of data privacy compliance and customer trust - Part 2

In the first part of this series, I explained what is DSAR and why the organizations should care about it. Now, let’s take a look at how the process can be perceived by the customers. Our recent GDPR benchmark research shows that the road can be tortuous.

CCPA will be live in less than 3 months. Do you have a plan?

In January, I’ll start a new game: ask a company to retrieve all the information they have about me in less than 45 days. One of the requirements of CCPA, is to be able to reply to a customer request to have access to all the data you have about them in less than 45 days. These are called the Verifiable Customer Requests. You may be able to complete 10, 20 replies. But what if you received 10 every day? What does it take to keep your customers happy and being compliant?

One Year After GDPR: Three Common Mistakes Businesses Still Make

May 25, 2019 marked the one-year anniversary of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into full effect. This milestone serves as a timely reminder for any business in the EU or doing business with EU residents on both the implications of failing to protect data and the procedures needed to prevent this from happening.

Countly Compliance Hub

GDPR is becoming the most crucial regulation through EU’s data privacy legislations. It brings data privacy and protection for EU citizens, and all companies worldwide processing EU citizen data is requested to obey the rules it brings. Countly has been in the forefront when it comes to security and privacy focusing product analytics and marketing platform. We give upmost importance to your data, and provide on-prem solutions to make sure data you generate is always yours. This video shows how Countly conforms to GPDR and possibly other regulations in the future (e.g ePrivacy) via its "Compliance Hub" plugin.