Media Coverage
Source: San Francisco Business Times
Media Coverage
Press Contacts: Erik Cummins, Matt Hyams, Olivia Thomas
12.16.11
The San Francisco Business Times reports that privacy is a hot-button issue for all kinds of companies, and, as a result, a growing area of law.
"For any multinational company, privacy may end up being one of their biggest compliance obligations going," said Deborah Thoren-Peden, the leader of Pillsbury’s Privacy, Data Security & Information Use group.
She cited the main reason for this, "the differences in what is required" - across different data privacy laws and compliance mandates in the United States, European Union and Asia.
The story reports that some EU agencies are looking into whether consumers have the right to have past data businesses collect on them expunged, such as when a consumer ends a service or subscription with the company, or in other circumstances. "That mechanism has not been set up that way, to work retroactively," Thoren-Peden said. "Do companies have the ability to work with that?"
Other privacy issues - such as data breaches and cyberattack threats - are among organizations' growing concerns. "It’s very difficult to design a system that could not possibly be hacked," said Thoren-Peden. "There will continue to be security breaches."