Data Privacy News Updates
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In an ever-evolving digital world, staying informed about global data protection laws and privacy trends is essential for businesses of all sizes. The Formiti Privacy News Blog is your go-to resource for the latest insights, expert guidance, and actionable advice on data privacy and compliance. Whether you’re navigating complex regulations like GDPR, PDPA, or HIPAA, or exploring best practices to safeguard personal data, our blog offers clear, engaging, and informative content tailored to your needs. Join us as we unpack critical topics, share industry updates, and help you turn compliance challenges into opportunities for growth and trust-building with your stakeholders.
The Brazil LGPD: How Organizations Can Ensure Compliance
The first step that an organization needs to take is to have a representative when it comes to data privacy compliance. There are several people handling the data you collect and process,
GDPR Accountability Principle: A Core Pillar of Compliance
The accountability principle is also in Article 24, which requires controllers to “implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure and to be able to demonstrate that processing is performed in accordance with this Regulation.”
Ensuring GDPR Compliance: Managing Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs)
Introduction In the wake of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), individuals have more control than ever over the personal data companies...
The CIA Triad: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
Risk assessment is the process of identifying the impact an event could have on an organization’s assets
Malaysia PDPA Law 2010 – Data Controller Contracts (Part 3)
Whenever any personal data processing is carried out by a data processor or controller on behalf of a data user – for the purpose of protecting that personal data from loss, modification, misuse, accidental/unauthorized disclosure or access or destruction – the PDPA requires the data user to ensure that the data controller/processor meets the following criteria:
New Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the EDPB
The new clauses came into effect on June 27, 2021. However, organizations are allowed to continue under the existing SCCs for their existing data transfers until September 27, 2021, after which the new SCCs must be implemented for all new data transfers
Why Data Protection Officers are key to GDPR Compliance
Keeping your end-user or customer in mind at every step of your data compliance journey will naturally lead to data compliance. In practical terms,
Malaysia’s PDPA Guide for Business
According to PDPCM, civil society organizations generally violate the general principles of information security, retention, and disclosure.
Singapore PDPA Vs GDPR: How do they stack up?
Singapore passed a similar law to accomplish the same in 2012 known as PDPA (personal data protection act), which went into full effect in 2014. Both laws bear some similarities and certain distinctions and were set out with similar personal and extraterritorial scopes.
Malaysia (PDPA) Your Guide Part One
Malaysia’s first comprehensive personal data protection legislation, the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA), was passed by the Malaysian Parliament on June 2, 2010
Malaysia Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) Your Guide Part Two
Malaysian law contains additional data protection obligations, including, for example, a requirement to notify data subjects regarding the purpose for which their personal data are collected
California CCPA Vs CPRA: What’s New in The Update
Though the CPRA comes into effect on January 1, 2023, any data collected by businesses from January 1, 2022, will be subject to compliance with the CPRA. This is termed the lookback period.