If you’re feeling a migraine coming on when you think about the approaching tidal wave of data privacy laws, take an automated data lineage solution.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. “We’d like to give a hearty welcome to the newest privacy legislation on the scene! Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big round of applause to… the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act!” The crowd may be going wild — but your BI team may be going crazy. Another privacy legislation? Another one? Depending on where you do business, you may already be dealing with multiple consumer data privacy laws, including (but of course not limited to): And chances are that by the end of the year several other US states will have their own consumer data privacy acts, including Florida, Colorado, New York, Connecticut, Washington, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Minnesota. Of course, each data privacy act has to be slightly different. Even for businesses that are completely CCPA/CPRA compliant, some of the additional elements they’ll have to add to their compliance strategy for the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) solution are: (Here’s a really well-done list we found that shows you how to successfully update your CCPA/CPRA privacy strategy for VCDPA compliance.) When you think about the practical implications of another 48 state data privacy acts… actually, don’t think about it! It’s a migraine trigger. The one thing critical for compliance with all current and future privacy laws is a data management solution. Compliance with any regulation regarding data requires that you know exactly what data you have, plus: When Richie Rich from Richmond calls you up and demands that you remove his personal data from your system, you need to be able to find it all, get rid of it, and prove that you did so.
