How an organization handles data matters. While records management covers many tenets of data collection, one particular area deserves exploration–privacy: what is it? How is it different from confidentiality? And why does this distinction matter? While privacy and confidentiality may seem interchangeable, both terms refer to different points in the data lifecycle. Let’s start with…
If the last year has taught us anything, it is to sanitize, sanitize, sanitize. You are probably sanitizing your hands, your house, everything you touch, but what about the personal information you process? Laws and regulations increasingly require entities to sanitize, pseudonymize or anonymize the personal information that they collect or process. Other than defining…
Privacy may very well be the fastest-growing area of law so far in the 21st century. While the US, at the federal level, has resisted a broad privacy law similar to the GDPR, momentum is steadily gaining for privacy legislation at the state level. This blog explores US privacy law’s recent developments from a records…
Individuals value their privacy. In contrast, businesses value the ability to leverage personal information to deliver quality products and services to meet the needs of their clients. The legal standards that regulate the protection of personal information help bridge the gap between these two opposing interests. This article addresses when to apply de-identification, the legal…