Privacy Compliance
Ensure compliance with global data privacy regulations in your collaboration tools
Data Privacy Regulations Demand Proper Handling and Security Practices
Collaboration tools make it easy for organizations to collect, store, and share customer, patient, and employee information, health data, educational and career details, addresses, and other personal data. They also make it easy to accidentally share, misuse and even steal that information, leading to privacy compliance violations.
Countries and regulators have enacted stringent and sweeping legislation across the globe to govern the collection, use, retention and distribution of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected healthcare information (PHI), including:
United States
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- New York Consumer Privacy Act (NYPA)
- Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minn. Stat. § 13)
- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
- Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA/PHI)
- Section 208
- Privacy Act
International
- EU – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Australia – Privacy Act and Consumer Data Right (CDR), Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (POLA Act)
- Canada – Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- South Africa – Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI)
- Brazil – Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD)
- Thailand – Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
- India – Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 (PDPB)
Data privacy violations can result in substantial penalties, and many organizations, particularly multinational companies, face significant challenges in locating and adequately protecting personal information due to the variety of applicable laws they must follow. With information stored across intranets, the cloud, and on-premises file shares and collaboration systems, the risks associated with managing personal data are considerable. This presents a major challenge for compliance officers, policy managers, and IT teams who are responsible for governing and safeguarding this information.
How NC Protect Can Help with Data Privacy Compliance
NC Protect proactively addresses data privacy issues, including who can access personal data and applies file-level protection to meet compliance. It secures files and controls how authorized users can access, utilize and share documents containing personal data, while providing a clear audit trail of access and use.
Benefits of NC Protect for Data Privacy Compliance:
- Discover and report on where PII exists in systems, including file shares, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 apps, for auditing purposes.
- Encrypt PII at rest and in transit across a range of applications, email, portable devices and storage media.
- Automatically classify, restrict access to and control distribution of content containing PII.
- Audit the entire lifecycle of a document, including who accessed files containing PII and what they did with it.
Data Privacy Compliance Solutions for Microsoft 365 Apps and File Shares
Fully integrated with Microsoft 365 apps, including SharePoint Online and on-premises, Office, Exchange, SharePoint Server, and Windows File Shares, NC Protect enforces privacy policies and access controls to ensure secure, compliant collaboration of personal information and other sensitive data.
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Learn how to leverage NC Protect to discover, classify and protect personal data and comply with global privacy regulations.