by Zasio | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, By Frank Fazzio
The clock is ticking on the European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We’re less than one year away from when the GDPR comes into force, May 25, 2018. This new regulation imposes sweeping privacy protection requirements on any...
by Zasio | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog, By Frank Fazzio
France’s new Digital Republic Act [1] significantly strengthens protections that control how French businesses use and retain personally identifying data. The law expands the scope and authority of the 1978 French Data Protection Act and brings the country to the...
by Zasio | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog, By Frank Fazzio
Why Prepare? The average total organizational cost of a data breach in the United States in 2015 was $6.8 million.[1] In 2016 alone, over 3,000 publicly disclosed data breaches have occurred so far, representing more than 2.2 billion compromised records.[2] In...
by Zasio | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, By Frank Fazzio
When we think about the universe of discoverable records during the course of pending litigation, we usually call to mind all of the business records responsive to the other party’s claim. Most businesses generally assume that the scope of discoverable documents...
by Zasio | May 19, 2016 | Blog, By Frank Fazzio
Electronic signatures and digital signatures are often used interchangeably in conversations, but they carry significant legal, evidentiary, and practical differences within the context of records management. Electronic signatures are any form of endorsement or assent...
by Zasio | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, By Frank Fazzio
The recent leak of the Panama Papers and the ensuing scandal has exposed a host of clandestine financial activities implicating people and companies around the globe. Although the Panama Papers scandal represents the largest (11 million documents, 2.6 terabytes) and...