How to Address Evolving Privacy Regulations During Discovery
In the face of growing data privacy regulations, appetites are strong for solutions that guard protected private information with the same gravitas given to protecting privilege. The challenge? Current privacy regulations are, on the one hand, broad and complex, and on the other, vague and underdefined. This makes implementing systems for preventing the inadvertent disclosure of protected private information an important task. Yet for all the coverage these regulations are meant to provide, there is precious little guidance about how to protect private information, and there is very little legal precedent to guide our practices.
ProSearch Director, Applied Sciences / Accelerated Learning Solutions, Dr. Gina Taranto, recently shared insight on this matter in an article published by LJN’s Cybersecurity Law & Strategy titled, “How to Address Evolving Privacy Regulations During Discovery.” In it, she advised that when evaluating solutions for managing private information, focus on putting in place the workflows, tools and technology that will allow for:
- Identifying private information.
- Recognizing and extracting private information.
- Annotating/labeling different types (or flavors) of private information.
- Recruiting the tools familiar from protecting privilege to protect private information.
