It’s Summertime! Baseball and Automation?
Yay! It’s nearly summer and that means we’re well into baseball season!
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
What’s it time for? New legislature.
The first such law in the US is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and is similar in the intent to provide privacy rights and consumer protection for the residents of California. Basically:
So, it’s stateside! And as most companies do business with residents of California, it’s something you need to be responsible and accountable for as a business.
Who’s affected?
When?
You’ve probably already seen many of the sites you visit have a notice pop up reminding you to check out their privacy policy and agree to their terms of use.
Why should you care?
There is also a steep cost to your company’s reputation if you have a major breach or do not disclose how you’re using clients’ data.
And honestly, it makes you a good Corporate Citizen, showing you care about your clients’ information, privacy, and their trust in your organization.
What to do?
Check the data that you store, why you store it, and validate if you even need it. Don’t hold onto data you don’t need and please destroy it properly.
If you do find that you store personal data, be very clear why you need it, what you will do with it, and how long you will keep it. And please use all the latest in security and encryption to store your data. You do want to be able to sleep at night.
Have someone in your organization start putting a Data Protection and Compliancy plan together and designate someone or a team as point of contact should your clients have questions about the data you store for them. Don’t just say you care about protecting your clients and their data, really do it and champion it within your organization.
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