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Trends & Technology for Retailers to Safeguard Brand Trust

In our latest white paper, we explore the increasing data complexity within the retail industry. Download the white paper to discover the steps you can take to safeguard brand trust through successful data privacy and incident management.

Regulatory Roundup – Consumer Privacy Laws Take the Front Seat in 2022

In case you missed it, here’s a recap of consumer privacy laws that have passed so far this year.

What You Need to Know About Japan’s Amended APPI Law

On April 1, 2022, amendments to Japan’s Act on Protection of Personal Information (Amended APPI) will come online, offering new guidelines, definitions, and requirements for data incidents and breaches that impact Japanese citizens. Japan’s data laws have already placed it at the top of list of countries concerned with protecting individual data rights – it was the first country to negotiate a reciprocal “adequacy” agreement with the EU, meaning data can flow between the EU and the designated “adequate” nation without any further data measures being put in place. 

Changes to California Breach Notification Laws

California’s new privacy law, the California Privacy Rights Act﹘CPRA for short﹘doesn’t go into effect until Jan 1 2023, but its implications for the treatment of employee data and its confusing “look back” provision already have a lot of people talking. CPRA isn’t a replacement of the existing California Privacy Protection Action (CPPA), but rather serves to define, modify, and extend the laws on the books. One significant extension is that the older law exempted employee data from many of the requirements applied to “consumer” data and personal information. Learn more in the blog.