{"id":4075,"date":"2019-07-26T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"how-firms-can-forestall-personal-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/26\/how-firms-can-forestall-personal-data-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"How Firms Can Forestall Personal Data Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By victor\nKabata<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a long time, the right to privacy had been relegated\nto the periphery by being subsumed with other human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, in the recent past,\nthe advent of digital technologies has thrust the aspect of privacy into\nprominence. In particular, many public and private companies have adopted new\ntechnologies and systems aimed at cutting costs and enhancing the efficiency of\ntheir operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, these systems are\nconfigured to harvest huge amounts of personal data from their users thus\nputting customer\u2019s privacy into focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While collecting customers\u2019\npersonal data is useful in enabling companies to authenticate their identity,\nit also poses a risk. In the absence of a robust data protection regime, this\ndata can be misused, by for instance, being sold to other companies for profit\nthus compromising customer\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, in the recent past,\nmany companies across the globe have been slapped with hefty fines for personal\ndata breaches. For example, just recently, tech giant, Facebook, was fined five\nbillion dollars by the United States\u2019, Federal Trade Commission, for violating\nuser\u2019s privacy\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/letters\/How-firms-can-forestall-personal-data-breaches\/4307714-5210694-3e7sao\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By victor Kabata For a long time, the right to privacy had been relegated to the periphery by being subsumed with other human rights. However, in the recent past, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}