We examine the evolving role of the Chief Privacy Officer and how the evolution of the role may develop in different directions under increased regulations.
Mobile smartphone usage is now reaching saturation point in the developed world. Increasingly mobile phones are becoming (or have become) indispensable business tools as well as powerful communication devices. However, with great power comes great responsibility – something that seems to have escaped U.S. President Donald Trump who is still using a legacy Android device. In this article we examine just why mobile devices present massive challenges when it comes to data security – and why business users need to be vigilant.
This article is based on a presentation made during the Data Privacy Asia 2016 conference held on 9-11 November 2016 by well-known and widely respected information security, privacy and compliance expert Rebecca Herold. Rebecca addresses how IT leaders are increasingly challenged by the myriad of physical, legal, political and logical considerations for data residency.
The decision in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra has important implications for metadata regulation in Australia, and for judicial oversight of the Australian Privacy Commissioner’s functions. This article examines the decision and discusses the key takeaways for businesses that are based in, or doing business with, Australia.
In this two-part series, we explore some of the issues around government surveillance and the search for that elusive balance between security and privacy. In this second part, we look at the search for that digital ‘safe place’ where privacy is assured and just why that place is becoming ever more elusive.
In this first part of a two-part series, we explore some of the issues around government surveillance and the search for that elusive balance between security and privacy. In this first part, we explore how serious the threat of cyber snooping by government surveillance is and why we shouldn’t panic just yet.
In this second part of a two part series we will be taking a look at how online retailers are taking steps to mitigate against the almost inevitable threat to data from hackers that seems part and parcel of the holiday buying season.
We give some insight into how companies could use a privacy impact assessment (PIA) in conjunction with data mapping practices to understand how data flows through an organisation, making it the perfect tool to document and track new initiatives.
In this article, we examine the role of International Standards Organization (ISO) standards, and how standards are important for an incident and data breach response plan.
The holiday season in 2016 will see many of these large enterprises up their game in terms of protecting customer data. It’s not as if they have much choice, data breaches in the past have reduced public trust in online retailers – but the latest approaches to ensuring data security go some way to restoring that trust.
