In Brief: TrustArc publishes privacy handbook
Seventy-page guide covers activities, controls, and documentation companies should implement, and has information on how GDPR and other laws align to each other.
Seventy-page guide covers activities, controls, and documentation companies should implement, and has information on how GDPR and other laws align to each other.
The privacy-by-design app has been downloaded around 215,000 times and plans for a web version are underway.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Pearson has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it tried to hide and downplay a 2018 data breach that led to the theft of student data and administrator log-in credentials of 13,000 school, district and university customer accounts in the United States.
Greater public attention to privacy has reduced trust in all tech providers, including those like Apple and Google that have positioned themselves as privacy-friendly. Apple’s rank in Jebbit’s annual Consumer Data Trust Index fell from 17 to 43, while Google fell from number 4 to 89. Amazon fell just slightly, from first to fourth place, while Facebook actually improved a bit from 97 to 88.