The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is approaching its 4th year anniversary since it was implemented in May 2018. Since its inception, it has been hailed as a groundbreaking framework for making users’ rights on the Internet a human right. Its impact in many other markets has been undeniable and it truly has affected how the world of the Internet works, even outside EU borders.
Image credits: Julia Sowells With the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the use of telemedicine and telehealth services has soared. An article by McKinsey estimated that in 2021, the use of telehealth was 38 times higher than pre-COVID years.
First published on The New Stack. A problem starts to reveal itself. The team has finished a minimum viable product’s (MVP) business features, and user personally identifiable information (PII) has merged into the same domain as other core objects. Social logins bring their own attributes that need to be captured but don’t line up.
Protecting sensitive data and preventing unintended data exposure is critical for businesses. However, many organizations lack the tools to stay on top of where sensitive data resides across their enterprise. It’s particularly concerning when sensitive data shows up in unexpected places – for example, in logs that services generate, when customers inadvertently send it in a customer support chat, or when managing unstructured analytical workloads.
Anybody interested in providing products and services to consumers dreams of building a start-up. For any entrepreneur who aspires to create a market-leading product, this is the first step. In the post-covid pandemic era, you may easily start a digital business by simply creating a website. However, exposing all of your services and products on an internet platform has become a requirement. You will not be able to survive in the market if you do not do so.