Data refers to any information that can be collected, processed, and used. This can include personal information like names, addresses, and online activity, as well as business data like customer records and financial transactions.
Data privacy focuses on the responsible handling and protection of personal data. It encompasses principles such as:
Individual Rights: Granting individuals control over their personal data, including the right to access, rectify, erase, and object to processing.
Data Minimization: Collecting only the data necessary for a specific purpose and avoiding excessive data collection.
Data Security: Implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, 1 or processing.
Captain Compliance provides articles, guides, and other resources to help educate users about the various topics related to Data Privacy.
For decades, the data brokerage industry treated Subject Rights Requests opt-outs, data removal demands, and privacy deletion requests—as a minor administrative inconvenience. The standard corporate
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Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has published Guidance Notes for Cross-Border Data Transfers (2026). Data Commissioner Immaculate Kassait, SC, MBS, said the note
The September 1 action against SalesIntel Research is the latest in a rapid series of California data broker cases, arriving just one month after DROP
Most data privacy audits fail for the same reason: they audit the paperwork instead of the systems. A team reviews policies, interviews stakeholders, fills in
A South Florida plaintiffs’ firm with deep roots in complex litigation is now targeting businesses over one of the most misunderstood laws in the state.
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Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May 2026, its second bankruptcy filing in two years finally catching up with it after roughly 17,000 employees lost their
If you’ve been online, you’ve probably seen the term GPC and wondered what it means. GPC stands for Global Privacy Control. Captain Compliance has created
The number of privacy lawsuits being filed in the United States is accelerating, plaintiffs are finding new ways to apply decades-old statutes to modern tracking