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Alexander White (alexander.mc.white@gmail.com) is Deputy Chief Privacy Officer for the South Carolina Department of Administration’s Enterprise Privacy Office in Columbia, South Carolina.
There are few topics more prevalent in the news than data protection, but you may be unsure how to even wrap your head around protecting personal information. In this article, we’ll discuss how creating a set of privacy principles can give your organization the guiding vision to comply with privacy laws — or go above and beyond to the ethical standard your organization wants to set.
Now is the time to examine the way your organization uses personal information. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force worldwide in May for any entity that holds data on European residents. In the United States, California’s Consumer Privacy Act has started a national conversation about the way to regulate privacy issues. No matter the jurisdiction, the visibility of data breaches is growing, and the risks involved are becoming more prominent in the minds of consumers.
