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.
A constitutional amendment was published in Mexico’s Diario Oficial de la Federación that dissolved the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information, and Personal Data
The International Trade Administration (ITA) announced the official launch of the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) and Global Privacy Recognition for Processors (PRP) Systems, new
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Before we know it will have been 5 years since H&M’s €35.3 million GDPR fine rocked the retail industry, you’d expect most major brands to
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In a startling revelation, researchers have uncovered a sophisticated scheme by Meta and Yandex that has been covertly undermining the privacy of Android users for
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In Hamilton, Bermuda has stepped boldly into the spotlight with the full implementation of their own privacy law named Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) which
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