A Beginner’s Guide to POPIA

Cole PrudenData Protection, GDPR

PII Tools – POPIA explained

Over the past two decades, the online world has experienced a true revolution in data protection. But each corner of the world handles PII differently, so put on your sunglasses and safari hat because we’re headed to South Africa!

How To: Understanding RoPA and Achieving Compliance

Cole PrudenData Discovery, GDPR, GDPR Compliance, Private Data

Did you know the GDPR has 99 different articles and over 250 pages? You’ll likely never know each provision individually, but there’s at least one article worth paying extra attention to. Meet Article 30: RoPA. The GDPR If you’re the kind of person interested in articles about sensitive data and compliance, we sure hope you’re already well aware of the … Read More

Person Cards® – The Holy Grail of Data Discovery

Cole PrudenData Discovery, GDPR, PHI, PII

By 2025, the global datasphere is estimated to hold as much as 175 zettabytes of data. How can companies today possibly have a chance to organize that much information? The answer: Person Cards®. More Data, More Problems 175 zettabytes of data worldwide? Considering a single zettabyte is equal to a trillion gigabytes (yes, with a ‘T’), the actual amount of … Read More

The New CPRA Umbrella Covers HR Data

Cole PrudenCPRA, HR Data, Personal Data Protection

Is it too early to start talking about New Year’s resolutions? Well, come January 1st, 2023, the only goal for many HR departments will be unraveling the CPRA’s latest privacy law on HR data. So, will you wait until after Christmas to finally see what all the fuss is about, or will you dive into the CPRA deep end while … Read More

Making GDPR Compliance Simple

Cole PrudenPersonal Data Discovery, Regulatory Compliance, Self-Hosted Auditing Software

By now, we should all be well aware of the GDPR and what it means for our business. How is it then that so many companies remain GDPR non-compliant? Is the regulation too complicated, too time-consuming, or is it just a hassle? Discover everything you need to know to easily comply with the GDPR today. What is the GDPR and … Read More

What Are Sensitive Data Discovery Tools and How Do They Work?

Cole PrudenData Discovery, Personal Data, Real-Time Automation

With technology progressing and changing every day, it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with the times. As a business, however, falling behind can mean letting important (and legally binding) information fall through the cracks, disappointing customers and losing the trust of business partners. This is where sensitive data discovery tools come into play. But what exactly are they … Read More

Detect person names in text: Part 2 (Technical)

Jan ProcházkaDeep Learning, Personal Data, Whitepaper

Neural network architecture

In Detect Person Names in Text: Part 1 (Results), we benchmarked our new named entity recognizer (NER) against popular open source alternatives, such as Stanford NER, Stanza and SpaCy. Today we dig a little deeper into the NER architecture and technical details. First, recall our main NER objectives. In short, we require our NER to be practical, rather than just … Read More