His team is also responsible for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Many thanks to Pat and Harrison for sharing this important and timely news!
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He suggests that the new settings try to bore users into giving consent for their data to be shared, arguing that they are neither adequately specific nor transparent.
The GDPR places severe financial sanctions on organisations who fail to comply. Any company that operates in the European Union and collects any personal data automatically is subject to the regulation.
Data is the new gold, but we do not value this precious commodity, giving our data away too freely.
What Is the Territorial Reach of GDPR? The much needed and dreaded EU-GDPR.
“I’d be very interested to see what sort of data management options they’re going to give you if you go to Facebook on a computer”, Simpson told TechNewsWorld.
In the human sense, the General Data Protection Regulation effective in the United Kingdom from May 25 2018 applies to “Data Processors, ‘ ‘Sub-Processors” and ‘Data Controllers’. But doing so means managing multiple data regimes.
“Player privacy in the game industry is not always at the forefront of most companies’ minds, but it is essential for a player’s peace of mind”, said Hoover in an email to GamesBeat.
Despite supposedly being a unified legislation, organisations will still need to consider local laws in deciding how to process personal data under GDPR. Every business should treat data privacy on an equal footing with data security and user experience.
What Does GDPR Require for Companies?
The GDPR sets the benchmark, and will generally require data that is transferred outside the European Union to have adequate levels of local data protection.
Additionally, customers should be given access to any of their personal data that is being processed, upon request, along with the reason for processing it, and they should have the right to transfer the data between service providers.
“There is a whole new section on surveillance and investigatory powers of law enforcement and national security officers in documentation from the Article 29 Working Party that advises the European Commission on adequacy matters”, he said. GDPR is not a one-time project that you do it in a project mode and gets over. Controllers and processors will be required to enter into detailed processing agreements or renegotiate existing ones. This may include the “right to be forgotten” and have their data erased unless the company can show legal grounds for continued use. In Germany, for example, pursuant to section 8a of the Act on the Federal Office for Information Security (BSIG), so called operators of critical infrastructure, such as energy, transportation or telecommunication companies as well as insurers, have to take organisational and technical measures to avoid errors of the availability, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of their information technology systems, components and processes which are essential for the functionality of the operated critical infrastructures.
What Are the Penalties for Non-Compliance?
Yet it is complicated, and just one example is found in the different windows for notifying authorities in US states (five to 30 days, in some cases) and Europe (72 hours).
He said IoT and cloud computing have been incorporated in the EU’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to take effect next month. For many companies, it changes the game.
Is There A Safe Harbor?
In a blog post, Oculus notes that its new privacy policy will include examples of developers could use users’ data.
The company maintains that the same privacy protections apply to everyone no matter where they live. The Privacy Shield framework replaced the now defunct “Safe Harbor” framework. Privacy policies will need to be updated and businesses will need to amend (or draft) notification forms.
To succeed long term, boards must view the regulation as a business, rather than a security, risk. A law firm with a Data Privacy & Cybersecurity workgroup, like ECJ, can counsel companies in either case.
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What Does This Really Mean? How data is processed, the type of data and the scope allowed, a key objective of GDPR, isn’t covered.
