The festive season is nearly upon us; and while you might be dreaming about cookies of the sugary and Christmas themed type, European judges have other ideas. The other type of cookie – and most likely the more frequent – are those used on websites to store small amounts of information on our local endpoints to assist with functionality.
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The 25th May 2018 has arrived and you as a data subject have been empowered with Europe's most ambitious and forward-thinking data protection regulation to date, the GDPR. As the ultimate steward of your personal data, you now have control over its use in most scenarios making data privacy a fundamental right. But what about instances where your personal data is available publicly? Is personal data fair game, once it is in the public domain?
So, you've been told that you need to destroy your prized contacts database unless you can prove that you have consent to process the personal data of those that you store. Maybe you can send out communication asking those contacts to re-consent... but how many would? And what about the problems which Honda incurred by doing this?
There is not much which sits higher in the priority list of information security professionals today than the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Record high penalties versus sweeping changes in the practice of collecting and processing personal data have led some information security teams to focus on nothing else in the coming 12 months.
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