Data privacy

Digital innovation will soon outpace the ability of many organizations to keep up, and have dramatic impacts on artificial intelligence and related skills, cultural advancement and processes becoming products, says Gartner.

Finding critical data in a sea of company data can feel daunting. Start by creating a data inventory to help identify potential 'data hotspots,' recommends Matthew Nelson.

In late June, California passed A.B. 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, a sweeping piece of legislation that, on its face, grants California residents data privacy rights that have never before been granted in the United States.

U.S. universities offering IT courses that cover compliance issues must change their thinking just as U.S. businesses will have to do and must now adjust curriculum to a global outlook.

Unable to analyze or even catalog all the consumer data they collect, companies risk violating data privacy laws.

Cybersecurity regulation for carriers in the US is turning into a many-sizes, many-models scenario, with overlapping and variable regulatory requirements.

How do you create an environment to support rapid innovation while protecting the company from its own excesses? Consider these five steps to moving fast without breaking things.

Insurance is a data business, and a marquee piece of legislation impacting data ownership and portability is likely to impact the sector greatly.

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation will require firms to get consent to use personal data in automating decisions.

Since there is no specific certification, compliance is based largely on certain 'appropriateness' standards and it’s up to each organization to determine what that means.

Carriers have to take care to clearly communicate the value of collecting more data from consumers.

This week's Congressional hearing is likely to lead to new federal regulations aimed at all companies that collect personal identifiable information, including carriers.

Facebook CEO faced grilling from lawmakers over the company's stewardship of customer data.

The Facebook CEO made it clear that, even today, he isn’t concerned with what users might reasonably expect him to do with their data, as long as he’s taking care of his 'third-party problem.'

A new study finds that nearly three in four organizations plan to incentivize employees to improve data hygiene and take accountability for compliance.

The smartphone application is a response to recent upticks in ransomware attacks, the company says.

Consumers are increasingly concerned that companies are amassing enormous amounts of information about their activities and using it in unethical ways.

Carrier partnered with Amazon Web Services and Deloitte to reduce spending and improve speed to market of new capablities, CIO explains.

Otonomo collects hundreds of data points from cars and packages them to inform insurers' UBI programs.

Companies are wary of cyber attacks, other data breaches, and other system failures over all other risks, according to survey of worldwide firms.