Data Privacy

Awareness regarding consumer protection is increasing rapidly and organizations are in need of implementing mechanisms to process consumer personal data in a secure manner. Though not markets internationally are mature w.r.t privacy compliance, the maturity is increasing gradually. For example, if we take European Union back in 2016 started talking about a comprehensive personal data …

Consumer Driven Data Privacy Compliance – An inevitable future Read More »

Recently, Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA) released two sets of regulations for public consultation; one being the draft implementing regulation for KSA PDPL and the other being regulation for transfer of personal data outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Both these regulations come at a very crucial time, when the KSA PDPL …

Key requirements as per draft KSA PDPL Implementing Regulations Read More »

Consents are essential part of any data privacy project and is managed using a Data Privacy automation tool. Many regulations stipulate processing of personal data on the legal basis of consent. Before moving on the the technological implementation and knowing how to implement consent management system, let us briefly look at the concept of consent. …

Using APIs for managing consents in a Consent Management System Read More »

Privacy regulations, often specify whether the regulations are applicable to paper based processing or not. It is essential for organizations to understand the scope of the regulation before starting the privacy program implementation as there might be cases of personal data processing in hard copies, which may be missed, if not interpreted properly. For example, …

Implementing Data Privacy controls for paper-based processing of Personal Data Read More »

Data Privacy is everywhere. The awareness is increasing day by day and we see organizations spending a huge amount of money on procuring privacy automation tools. While privacy automation tools ease the life of a Privacy Office, they may complicate the privacy compliance process of the organization if it is not used properly or are …

Key considerations while onboarding a privacy automation vendor Read More »