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Data is now truly everywhere, with “digital transformation” happening across every industry. All sizes of organizations are deploying software-as-a-service and all sorts of connected devices to manage multiple areas of business.
Running concurrently with this massive ingestion of ones and zeros is data policy, both in the European Union with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, in the United States, with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), not to mention laws drafted in other states. If you are not already familiar with the GDPR and CCPA, the shortest way to describe these policies is that they are laws companies must adhere to in order to take reasonable data protection measures, safeguarding residents’ personal information.
Running concurrently with this massive ingestion of ones and zeros is data policy, both in the European Union with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, in the United States, with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), not to mention laws drafted in other states. If you are not already familiar with the GDPR and CCPA, the shortest way to describe these policies is that they are laws companies must adhere to in order to take reasonable data protection measures, safeguarding residents’ personal information.
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