The California Consumer Privacy Act is notorious for the haste with which it was drafted. Many provisions of the statute require clarification, and the attorney general’s office is holding a series of public forums before issuing clarifying regulations. Among the concepts not well defined by the CC...

Anonymization and pseudonymization are two terms that have been the topic of much discussion since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation. This is for good reason, too. The GDPR recognizes the privacy-enhancing effect of these techniques by providing exceptions to many of the mos...

For many, the General Data Protection Regulation ushered a new word into their vocabulary: pseudonymization. What’s the difference between pseudonymous data and anonymous data, exactly? Such was the basic conversation that ran through the first-ever Brussels Privacy Symposium, run by the Brussels Pr...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/ec effective May 25, 2018. The GDPR is directly applicable in each member state and will lead to a greater degree of data protection harmonization across EU nations. Although many companies have alre...