Data Privacy stories

The majority of New Zealanders are concerned about data privacy, with 53% stating companies are requesting too much personal information.>>

Customer demand is driving a mandate for digital ethics in businesses, resulting in more legislation to protect data privacy and data security.>>

“While this consideration reflects the expertise of the Commissioner, it also reflects the work of the strong and stable team within the Office... and the results they have achieved for privacy in New Zealand.” >>

Trade Me says it works hard to keep 'scumbags' off its site, but it also wants to protect customer privacy.>>

Consumer advocates say the time is right to allow individuals and companies greater access to the data that is held about them, but warn privacy issues, impacts for Māori and what the new law actually covers need to be considered carefully.>>

Omnichannel marketing solution provider dotdigital has announced that it has been awarded ISO 27701 certification.>>

The data analyst company says these companies must also build trusted data initiatives by increasing the capabilities required for digital trustworthiness.>>

While the GDPR is established in the European Union, businesses of all sizes across the globe need to comply if they meet certain criteria.>>

Waikato District Health Board will not be fined for patient data being hacked, but it may face liability if harm is caused from it, the Privacy Commissioner says. >>

A new report highlights a significant gap in workforce privacy, 63% of IT professionals wanting to protect employee privacy but only 34% of organisations effectively doing so.>>

Corporates fear cybercrime and employee leaks are the biggest risks to protecting trade secrets.>>

Learning how to better protect the data used and stored by organisations’ print systems is in their best interests for the company’s future success.>>

"People are willing to support measures that stop companies from collecting and selling their personal data.">>

Research from IDC has revealed that worldwide revenues of data privacy management software grew by 46.1% year-over-year in 2020.>>

BlackLine follows information security standards in cloud services, supported by policies that enforce data security and privacy.>>

Much of this mistrust resides in how companies are perceived to be using customer data.>>

Barely four months since the Privacy Act 2020 came into force, early indications appear to suggest that mandatory breach reporting regulations are working.>>

Adobe says adopting a first-party strategy, whereby quality, permission-based data is placed at the centre of customer engagements, is the future.>>

Businesses need to correlate events intelligently across multiple threat surfaces, application layers, and time spans to connect event A, to event B, to event C — even if they are months apart.>>

Organisations should monitor all file, app, user and web activity with comprehensive activity logs to uncover the whereabouts of consumers’ data.>>

Financial institutions in Asia Pacific are paying a heavy price for not complying with some of the most common and widespread regulations designed to protect them and their customers.>>

"In our new digital economy, people around the world are becoming acutely aware of how their information is being collected, stored, and used.">>

"From a long-term sustainable point of view, organisations will need to adopt data minimisation and privacy by design and default.">>

It comes after the European Commission announced its approval of the acquisition late last month, with the condition that the search engine giant would not use Fitbit health data to target ads to users in the European Union. >>