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Explore the key differences between the GDPR and HIPAA, from consent models to enforcement. Discover how businesses handling personal or health data can align privacy practices and strengthen user and patient consent processes to achieve compliance across both frameworks.

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) is vital for secure, privacy-compliant growth, requiring continuous assessment of risks from vendors with data access. It necessitates mitigating cybersecurity, legal, and operational risks; following the TPRM lifecycle (Identify, Assess, Mitigate, Monitor, Respond); and integrating consent management/automation (e.g., Server-Side Tagging) for proactive GDPR compliance.

Data governance tools are essential for regulatory compliance, securing data integrity, and supporting privacy-first business decisions. They manage policies, metadata, access control, and automation. Integrating consent and server-side tagging is key for a modern, accountable, and transparent framework.

Data governance is a management framework for organizations to improve the quality, availability, and security of their data. Learn about core principles, useful tools, and best practices in this data governance guide.

GDPR training is an essential step in building privacy by design, achieving and maintaining privacy compliance, and fostering customer trust in your business. This article determines how GDPR training helps protect your business and provides tools, resources, and essential compliance steps.

The Australia Privacy Act 1988 and its 13 Privacy Principles (APPs) regulate how organizations collect, use, and protect personal data in that country. Learn about its scope, rights, obligations, enforcement, and ongoing reforms.

Learn whether GDPR exemptions apply to your business, and how to assess the specific ways the regulation’s requirements can affect your product or service delivery, as well as your broader operations. Even where exemptions do apply, you must still meet certain obligations to support lawful and transparent data protection practices.

Learn how the GDPR affects charities and nonprofits, with practical steps to stay privacy-compliant. This guide breaks down risks, responsibilities, and simple ways to manage consent to help your organization protect employee, volunteer, and beneficiary data.