Data Privacy

The Privacy Industry is Growing… So are Privacy Jobs

The data privacy industry has seen widespread growth in 2021. In large part, due to the global proliferation of new laws seeking to protect consumer information.  It is also due to growing demand from consumers, that businesses protect personal…

Data Privacy in Healthcare – 5 Things You Need to Know

1. HIPAA Privacy Rule The HIPAA Privacy Rule, last modified on December 10, 2020, establishes national standards to protect the medical records and personal health information of individuals. It applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health providers…

New FTC Rule Has Implications for How Financial Companies Manage Data

On October 27, 2021 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) updated the Safeguard Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act (known as the GBLA), with important implications for how financial institutions collect, manage, and utilize consumer information. The GLBA Safeguards Rule requires…

How Privacy is Reinventing the Internet

In many ways, the Internet has been the ultimate human experiment in decentralized systems architecture. Large-scale systems can be thought of as a collection of dynamic processes, protocols, and implementation mechanisms that are designed to yield certain outputs or to…

Data Privacy vs. Cybersecurity

In our experience developing data privacy solutions for businesses, we have often come across the common misconception that cybersecurity and data privacy are the same thing. As we will discuss in this article, they are not. Data privacy solutions…

History of Data Privacy in U.S. Policy

I served for 6 years as a National Committeeman and Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under both Democratic and Republican administrations. I also served as both a USDoD and USDoE CSSO Computer Systems Security Officer carrying four…

Are New Data Privacy Laws Causing Headaches for Your Business?

Over 33% of adults in the U.S. have experienced identity theft, with consumers reporting losses of over $3 billion due to fraud in 2020. Unfortunately, for U.S. consumers the problem of identity theft is getting worse, not better. But…