Data breaches are an everyday occurrence that demonstrate no enterprise or individual is impervious to vulnerabilities. In 2015, there were 781 known data breaches in the U.S., the second highest year since the Identity Theft Resource Center began tracking them in 2005. [1] Between this influx of breaches and rapidly evolving and emerging privacy laws, it is no wonder enterprises are struggling to protect and effectively manage personally identifiable information (PII)
As companies of all sizes begin to store data in the cloud, privacy issues have become big news...The issues companies face as they try to keep data compliant in the cloud don’t end there...Does the data leave the jurisdiction of the customer?
Countries are continuing to escalate restrictions on storage location and transfers of data, with China being the most recent to follow suit
The law expands the scope and authority of the 1978 French Data Protection Act and brings the country to the foreground of modernizing the legal framework of the information economy ahead of the 2018 implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)