Today’s global economy is dependent upon the flows of information and businesses need to safeguard the security and confidentiality of both personal and business information.
Identity theft and security breaches have heightened global public awareness of the potential abuses associated with identity theft and unauthorized access to personal information. Such risks apply to all business, which must develop and maintain compliance policies for privacy of sensitive personal information, personally identifiable information, or personal health information. Compliance has become a way of life for business to preserve goodwill, maintain trust, avoid liability and litigation and enhance their competitive position.
We advise clients on managing privacy and security risks associated with the collection, use and disclosure of consumer and employee personal information. We design and implement compliance programs governing the collection, use, protection, disclosure and management of data, including data protection, incident response, breach notification, privacy and records management.
Our practice includes legal support for:
Digital Content / Data Protection
- Data Protection and Security: Physical, Logical, Administrative
- Security Breach Notification Planning
- Content Publishing and Distribution
- Database administration
- Archiving, Data retention and destruction
Market Data - Transborder Data Flows
- Metadata and the Semantic Web: rights and responsibilities for open files
Privacy
- Policy Development
- Manuals Training
- Data Controllers
- Data Processors
- Health and Medical records
- Employment records
- Financial records
Records Management
- Business Continuity Planning
- Rural, near-shore and far-shore data management
- Encryption