Companies Prepare For Waves of Data Breach Lawsuits
Data breaches are inevitable. And no amount of security protocols can provide absolute assurance that consumer information is protected. With increasing threats of identity theft, who should be responsible for the majority of data breach risk, the consumer or the business? California lawmakers argue that the majority of that burden…
The Evolving Price of User Data to Businesses
Thanks to groundbreaking legislation like the CCPA and CPRA, opt-out requests and other privacy rights are starting to put a price tag on user data. Many businesses are aware of the consumer’s rights, but they do not know their own. Exercising these rights is a form of negotiation, and how…
The Real Value of Trust in The SaaS Industry
Cloud computing and SaaS are innovations that were bound to happen. Just like the internet and the steam engine. Yet, most Thanksgiving conversations about SaaS Vendors are met with vacant expressions. Despite its lack of sex appeal, corporate spending on cloud computing services has grown from 1 billion in 2009…
Legal Steps to take in Event of a Data Breach
Nowadays, incidences of data breaches and phishing attacks are fast becoming so rampant. If you’ve been a victim of this, it’s important that you take appropriate actions and steps to salvage the situation. Some steps and actions are required by law. Assess What’s Lost Immediately after confirming a data breach,…
The Right To Be Forgotten
Of recent years, the right to be forgotten – or the right to erasure – has gained considerable momentum. It vests in people, the privilege of demanding for specific negative personal data or information from web archives and directories to be taken down.
Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) Under the CCPA California
If you’ve been following our CCPA California blog posts, you should know that this new data privacy law grants data subjects, i.e. Californian residents, some new types of consumer privacy rights. It includes the right of consumers to know the kind of personal information that businesses have about them, request…
CCPA Regulatory Compliance Best Practices
As you already know, the CCPA is the newest, biggest legal framework when it comes to privacy laws in the Californian State of the United States. Businesses that have one, two or many things to do with privacy, are scrambling fast and furiously to avoid being hit by the very…
Litigation Risks Under CCPA California
Victims of data privacy infringement in California are in luck as the CCPA California makes elaborate provisions to provide succor. This means California businesses have litigation risks under the CCPA.
CCPA Regulatory Compliance Penalties
There are CCPA regulatory compliance that helps to guarantee the effectiveness of the statute.
CCPA California Potential Loopholes – The Verification Loophole
Laws are made with the aim of protecting citizens from those with malicious intentions. Even though lawmakers have the best of intentions, they unwittingly leave potential loopholes in their regulations, which malefactors are all too happy to exploit. Prevention, they say, is better than cure. This holds true, especially for…