What is 'Private Data'?
The EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) "only applies to personal data, which is any piece of information that relates to an identifiable person. It’s crucial for any business with EU consumers to understand this concept for GDPR compliance" (GDPR.EU).
What is exactly 'Personal Data'?
‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. (GDPR.EU).
Are there serious consequences if private data is found on the 'wild'?
Yes, there are!
You may end up paying a huge fine, pay compensation to the person which the data is on the 'wild', and above all you may get discredited in public by the media and word-of-mouth marketing – you may lose most of your clients/customers.
Does SDNC have a solution?
Yes, it does.
If personal data are critical to your business, even to your personal life, then our suggestion is not to use anything related to the cloud, e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft. The reason is 'metadata'.
What is metadata?
Simply said, it is the 'external' data that provides information about your digital files. For instance, if you right-click a photo or a song you might see names, geo-coordinates, titles, keywords, ...
How to get rid of it?
Better not, if you want your files to be searchable. There is trade-off by using the cloud.
Even if you delete your online files' metadata, powerful algorithms will replace them with other accurate data, related to you. To a certain extent, no way to get rid of metadata.
What to do?
Well, use our solution. You have to separate your internal network from the Internet and put a security layer, that you can control, around it (see picture).
For more information, do not hesitate to contuct us.
