The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in less than four months. Even with up to 70 percent of enterprises, globally, predicting they would be ready by the May 25, 2018, deadline, according to a study conducted by IAPP in late 2017, thousands of businesses, includin...

France’s data protection authority, the CNIL, has produced a helpful six-step methodology for organizations preparing to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. At the top of the list is appointing a DPO. As IAPP DPO Rita Heimes, CIPP/US, CIPM, writes for DPO Confessional, we’ve got t...

There are few things more sacred to a person's privacy than one's home. For one, it's enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures ..."  So it's no surpri...