10.03.2022 Executive Data Bytes – How to share, when, and with who - An insider look into data privacy

Executive Data Bytes

Tech analysis for the busy executive.

Welcome to another edition of Executive Data Bytes! This week, we are exploring how to protect your user data through Privacy by Design. 

Focus piece: “Data Protection and Privacy: 12 Ways to Protect User Data”

Executive Summary

Data privacy refers to how sensitive information should be collected and handled and helps ensure that criminals cannot maliciously use data and that organizations meet regulatory requirements. This Cloudian article explores 12 ways your business can protect user data.

Key Takeaways

• Data protection principles help protect data and make it available under any circumstances. They include operational data backup and business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) and implementing aspects of data management and data availability.
• Data protection involves discovering which data sets exist in the organization, which are business critical, and which contain sensitive data that might be subject to compliance regulations. 
• Data loss prevention solutions often include several tools to protect against and recover from data loss. Backups are a critical strategy for ensuring business continuity when original data is lost, destroyed, or damaged, either accidentally or maliciously. Snapshots, replication, firewalls, authentication and authorization, encryption, and role-based access controls can help you ensure data security. 
• Data encryption protects your data from unauthorized access, endpoint protection protects gateways to your network, and data erasure limits liability by deleting data that is no longer needed. Erasing unnecessary data is a requirement of many compliance regulations, such as GDPR. Disaster recovery involves setting up a remote disaster recovery site with copies of protected systems.

Focus piece: “Integrating Privacy by Design into your UI design strategy”

Executive Summary

There has been a significant shift in how Americans view the right to privacy, and regulations are raising the bar for data security. This article from Secret Stache covers some actionable steps that you can take to implement Privacy by Design into your projects.

Key Takeaways

• The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes Privacy by Design a legal requirement. Designers can protect users' privacy by adopting Privacy by Design - a privacy-first framework.
• When taking a PbD approach to web design, you need to take into account the different ways your site collects personal data. The most popular use case scenario of volunteered personal data collection is when your visitors enter their information through forms on your site.
• From a design standpoint, this principle means you should stop using pre-ticked checkboxes and prompt users to give explicit consent for their data to be stored on your system.
• Data minimization means that you should only collect the data you need to provide the services you're offering. This can be achieved by replacing personally identifiable data with an anonymous ID, token, or pseudonym.

Focus piece: “Implementing Privacy By Design”

Executive Summary

Privacy by Design means integrating data protection and privacy features into your system engineering, practices, and procedures. It shouldn't be an afterthought or a supplement to your processes or infrastructure. This Privacy Policies blog explains how you can begin implementing Privacy by Design.

Key Takeaways

• Privacy by Design starts with the systems in place, including a documented organizational commitment to data protection standards, appointing a data protection officer, establishing a data protection framework, creating a record-keeping system for processing activities, identifying a risk management system, and updating privacy training.
• A poll performed by ExpressVPN found that 71% of people had concerns about the ways marketers collect and use their data. And 68%of American internet users said they would support a GDPR-like regulation in the United States.
• Privacy by Design means considering privacy from the beginning of a project and integrating it into your systems and operations. It can be achieved without spending millions on a security system to send out a newsletter.

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