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A couple of months ago I made a wild statement about the Facebook-Cambridge Analytical incident being the catalyst for stronger privacy regulation around the use of personal data for business purposes.  A few people found some merit on this idea – usually the ones from my own generation whose sense of adventure is a bit tempered by the reality of the past. And then lately, a few new events (think California’s CCPA) are showing that people and governments around the globe are more interested in the protection of personal data.  Most importantly, the appropriate use of personal data in a […]

GDPR came into effect on May 25th. Granted, the world didn’t come to an end but there is certainly awareness around the EU people whose personal data GDPR protects and they are making their voices heard. According to a report released by the IAPP, complaints have started pouring in across the different EU member states with as little as 2 in Sweden and 3 in Belgium and as many as 426 in France. Ireland to date has also had 547 data breach notifications! It is obvious that the Data Protection Authorities in the different EU states have a limited number […]

2017 is over and it was certainly a year where data breaches were front and center for organizations and the public in general. There is a renewed interest around what personal data protection should entail, and in multiple cases, organizations are not there yet. This interest stems from a clear concern from consumers about how their data is being managed and protected. It has also become a top priority for regulators, as we can attest from the implementation of GDPR in Europe. Therefore, what can we expect in 2018? In my opinion, more of the same… but on steroids. Cybersecurity, […]

GDPR reminds me a lot of Y2K. Eighteen years ago I was an IT project manager for one of the largest consumer goods manufacturers in the world: Procter & Gamble. I had been working for them for almost 5 years and one third of the time I was there, I spent it on a critical, expensive, dreadful, but at the same time very exciting initiative: Y2K. As a young professional that was starting her career, I could not relate very well to the repercussions of this technological bug. I was told to do a job and I was happily doing […]