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Tackling countless regulatory compliance challenges in an increasingly security-conscious world

By Priyanka Roy On June 17, 2020

PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, GDPR, CCPA, ISO; the list of regulations that companies need to comply with these days is as long as the arm of the law. While it is daunting for organizations to keep track of all applicable regulations and formulate exhaustive plans to achieve compliance, these are blessings in disguise as […]

Should encryption laws be changed in the United States?

By John Donegan On May 05, 2020

Until COVID-19 took Capitol Hill by storm, folks on both sides of the aisle were in the middle of debating legislation that could affect software companies’ use of end-to-end encryption. As it currently stands, software companies can provide their users with end-to-end encryption (E2EE) without being held liable for the content that their users post […]

Issues SMBs should consider while preparing for the LGPD

By Andres Mendoza On April 16, 2020

Passed by the National Congress of Brazil on Aug 14, 2018, the Brazilian General Data Protection Law, or LGPD (“Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados”), is set to take effect in August 2020. The LGPD grants data subjects a bevy of privileges, including access to their data, deletion of this data, data anonymization, and the disclosure […]

Should there be a federal consumer data privacy law, or should such legislation be left up to individual states?

By John Donegan On April 15, 2020

After the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) passed, lobbyists from both sides of the aisle descended on Capitol Hill. The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a DC-based lobbying group, has called for a federally mandated consumer data privacy law, as have some of the biggest players in tech, including Google, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple. […]