With GDPR now in effect, we should soon start to get some answers regarding its enforcement and how its private right to action will play out in the legal arena.
Data Privacy
What to do to make sure you’re ready for GDPR
Data protection experts are emphatic about what a company’s first reaction should be if it believes it is not fully GDPR compliant as 25 May approaches: Don’t panic.
Rabobank uses Latin to help with GDPR compliance
Jaclyn Jaeger talks with Peter Claassen of Rabobank about the bank’s collaboration with IBM to use cryptographic pseudonyms to anonymize customer information for GDPR compliance.
Interpreting the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published an update to its widely adopted Cybersecurity Framework, implementing significant revisions.
Group wants unredacted privacy assessments from Facebook
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit is seeking the release of unredacted Facebook privacy assessments from the Federal Trade Commission. The assessments were mandated under the terms of a 2011 consent order.
IdentityMind is GDPR-ready
IdentityMindGlobal—a SaaS platform provider that builds, maintains, and analyzes digital identities worldwide—announced that it is now GDPR-ready in the run-up to the May 25 deadline of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Microsoft appoints European data protection officer
Microsoft has appointed Steve May as its European Data Protection Officer (DPO), in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
EDPS Opinion calls for enforced data protections
A recently published European Data Protection Supervisor Opinion discussing online manipulation and personal data calls for enforced data protections.
Financial firms collaborate to defend against cyber-threats
Several financial institutions are voluntarily banding together to strengthen their cyber-security defenses and provide additional protections for consumer account information.
Department of Justice creates Cybersecurity Task Force
A new Cyber-Digital Task Force will assess how the Department of Justice is combatting the global cyber-threat and how federal law enforcement can more effectively accomplish its mission in this evolving area.


