Digital asset management firm Bynder is almost ready for GDPR Day. That’s May 25, when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect for companies doing business with EU citizens, wherever they are. We checked with the Amsterdam-based firm to see how it’s preparing for the biggest day in data privacy history. With […]
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Last Tuesday, we announced in an email to our customers that MailChimp is adding single opt-in as an option for email lists, and making it the default setting in new and existing lists starting October 31. However, we’ve made an important change for MailChimp users located in the European Union: If your primary contact address
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The General Data Protection Regulation is a measure adopted by the European Union to protect user privacy and data of European citizens. While on the surface, this may appear insignificant to US marketing activities, the enactment of the GDPR will, in fact, present challenges for any US company doing business in EU countries to comply
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As our resident legal expert here at Mailjet, I set aside at least a full day each week to take care of our data privacy issues. I had put together a compliance roadmap of items to be handled before the year-end as part of the GDPR readiness plan. The next item on my to do
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If your business is based in the European Union (EU) or you have customers or contacts in the EU, then you have probably heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by now. For those who haven’t, the GDPR is an EU privacy law that will take effect on May 25, 2018. It will regulate
We recently checked in with David to see how Act-On itself was getting prepared for being compliant. “We’re on second base,” he said, but added there is work to be done to get to home plate. He said Act-On began working about a year ago for the GDPR adoption. So far, that work has included:
In case you missed my first post, I am documenting our GDPR compliance journey, from where I sit as an in-house attorney working for an EU and International SaaS company. Get up to speed by reading my first diary entry. Take your mind back… It’s the end of May – one year before the new
It is less than a year until the new EU-wide General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force. Starting May 25, 2018, organizations could face potential heavy penalties for misuse of consumer data in a bid to give EU citizens better control of their personal information. According to a recent survey from the Direct Marketing Association,
I’m Darine Fayed, (Head of Legal @Mailjet, attorney practicing for more than 14 years) and I write from a personal viewpoint of an in-house lawyer who, along with the rest of EU and international companies, is under the pressure of getting our company ready for GDPR before May 2018. New to GDPR and wondering if
Individuals’ Rights Under GDPR Nathan: What are the individuals’ rights in all this? David: Yeah, that’s a great question. Because under the GDPR, the individual has the right to be informed, to be told, ‘I got your information from here, and this is what I’m going to do with it, and this is what I’m
