Privacy critical emerging from global pandemic: study RIYADH, February 9, 2021 The enhanced importance of privacy protections during the pandemic and increasing benefits for businesses that adopt strong privacy measures have been highlighted in a study.
Cisco published the 2021 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, its fourth annual look into corporate privacy practices worldwide, which was independent and anonymised and analysed the responses of 4,400 security and privacy professionals across 25 countries, and explored attitudes towards privacy legislation and the emergence of privacy metrics being reported to executive management.
At a time of disruption and uncertainty due to the pandemic, people have been suddenly expected, and at times required, to share their personal information to help curtail the spread of Covid-19. At the same time, people have shifted much of their lives online, accelerating a trend that normally would have taken years.