Blog: EU Privacy Laws
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GDPR Data Processing Agreement Template
When complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you must make sure you only pass on your users' data to companies that are GDPR-compliant. And you're legally required to have a contract in place with any data processors - that is, anyone who processes personal data on your...
GDPR Data Protection Policy
In the first eight months of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 59,000 data breaches were reported. Initially, this sounds somewhat worrying. Are data protection standards falling short? Are there some serious flaws in the data security infrastructure? Have cybercriminals suddenly got a lot more sophisticated? These concerns may be...
How the CCPA (CPRA) is Different from the GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), often said to be the world's toughest privacy law, took full effect in May 2018. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), easily the strictest general privacy law in the United States, passed soon after in June 2018. It took effect in January 2020....
How the CCPA (CPRA) is Similar to the GDPR
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which passed in June 2018 and came into force in January 2020, took some inspiration from the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It was then later amended and expanded via the CPRA to be even more like the GDPR. In many ways, the laws...
Informal GDPR Self-Audit for Online Businesses
Is your business GDPR-compliant? GDPR regulations are sweeping and complicated, and there is little guidance provided by the law itself for what you need to do. Consider the fact that every business comes with different data processing needs and requirements and you might find yourself overwhelmed and lost with this European...
GDPR Cookies Policy
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into full force in May of 2018. Businesses have been scrambling to comply - rewriting their Privacy Policies, deleting all traces of unnecessary personal data, and emailing their existing customers to refresh marketing consent. Perhaps the most noticeable sign of privacy practices...