After a long trip from the northeast to San Diego, I finally made it to another exciting Privacy, Security, and Risk Conference from the IAPP. With GDPR on the horizon, the air was thick with discussion of this regulation in effect in May of next year. Even more so, a lot of questions received at...

I spend a lot of time facilitating privacy training. Whether it is directly for our clients or on behalf of the IAPP or their training partners, there are common elements to a successful educational event.

The General Data Privacy Regulations, GDPR, are less than a year away.  Businesses around the world actively participating in the markets of the European Union are scrambling to comply with the new law.  We at Privacy Ref have been looking at how to best assess an organization’s readiness for com...

You may be interested in how Wells Fargo has been handling the fallout from their recent scandal.  The summary of the incident is that sales personnel at Wells Fargo were so pressured to meet numbers that they created fake accounts using real consumer information. The practice was rampant at the ...

With the IAPP Privacy Summit less than a month away, it is time to start planning what you will be doing there.  If you are going to the Summit this year, there are a large number of sessions, speakers, and exhibitors for you to check out and learn from.  This stands alone from the thousands [&he...

In recent weeks, leaks have been at the forefront of news.  This is mostly in a political spectrum, but it illustrates the importance of managing how information flows through an organization.  There have been examples other than those coming from the White House though. Being non-political in na...

A new year usually means setting a goal to remodel that extra bedroom, cut out caffeine, or finally hit the gym for 30 minutes a day.  This year you have an even greater goal in mind, the improvement of your privacy program.  Here are some great ways to start you on your way to achieving […]