Taking care of your data
We’re glad about the trend of legislation toward increased data privacy. As professionals who work with data, we have been known to curse the regulations sometimes, but in many ways, it’s just ensuring what we hope you would seek to do anyway: be respectful when working with personal data.
Personal data is anything that could identify a person—a phone number associated with a name, an email (since that will often always include the first name or last name), or an address. For example, if we’re talking about a male, under 21, living at 59 Bolton Square, it may be obvious who the person we’re talking about is.
Even if you don’t live in Europe, you’ve probably felt the impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For example, if you’re US-based, and you’re dealing with a client that lives in the EU, the regulation still gives that client protection, with the thread of...
