
Happy Data Privacy Day!
Did you know Data Privacy Day has been celebrated in the U.S. since 2008, and the U.S. federal government made it official in 2011?
It is a good time to reflect on the Principals of GDPR, which have now become the core privacy principals all business should follow for Data Privacy:
- Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: Personal data must be processed in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner.
- Purpose limitation: Personal data can only be collected for specific, legitimate, and explicit purposes.
- Data minimization: Personal data processing must be relevant, adequate, and limited to what is necessary.
- Accuracy: Personal data must be accurate and kept up to date.
- Storage limitation: Personal data should only be kept for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.
- Integrity and confidentiality: Personal data must be protected with integrity and confidentiality.
- Accountability: Everyone who processes personal data must be able to demonstrate compliance with the other six principles.
And of course, here is just a reminder of some critical steps for businesses to take to protect their data:
- Know how your data is collected
- Know your data locations
- Know your data types
- Know where you data is going
- Classify your data
- Secure your data with encryption
- Manage access to your data based on classification and roles
- Delete data as it ages or becomes unnecessary
- Utilize data deliberately
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