The first important date is March 27, 2018 which will bring the final vote on the European Union Copyright Directive Article 13. Within this copyright directive is the proposed article that introduces an obligation for information society service providers that store and provide to the public access to filter user uploads. It...
The time is ticking for the impending European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement deadline on May 25th, 2018. GDPR is a significant update of the existing 1995 EU Directive (95/46/c) and comes with massive penalties that can reach the greater of €20 million or 4% of global annual revenue. Companies...
CLOUD AND GDPR As the clock is ticking down, we are hearing how many data owners and processors scrambling to ensure compliance programs are in place by the time the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into force on May 25, 2018. At the beginning of December, more standards were rolled...
An hour ago, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ended net neutrality. The decision will have a huge effect on the way the internet works, opening the door for internet service providers (ISPs) to exert a huge amount of control over the internet and dictate what you use it for. A little history on the...
Earlier this year, Equifax experienced a data breach that resulted in exposure of 143 Million US and European citizens Personal Identifiable Information (PII.) Shortly thereafter, Yahoo confessed to a breach of all One Billion of its user’s information on three distinct occasions that only surfaced following an audit by the acquisition into Verizon. At...
Expense management is at the center of every well-managed organization. When assessing a Microsoft enterprise license requirements, most organizations struggle to achieve an accurate inventory which results in unnecessary spending. It is always a challenge to know exactly how many users and devices there are accessing applications and resources on your...
US Companies: The GDPR Is Coming! Wondering how the GDPR might affect US-Based companies? You are not alone. The GDPR will apply to US-based companies who offer goods or services to EU data subjects and/or monitor the data behavior of EU data subjects. If a company in the US is not actively...