Author Archives: GDPRsimple

Last Friday, a blog I wrote recommended using Zoom’s Waiting Room as a way to avoid Zoombombing.  A security report issued last Friday found a security issue with Zoom’s Waiting Room and intends to publish details of the vulnerability once Zoom has had an opportunity to address the issue.  The report recommends using passwords instead, […]

Starting March 30th, we at GDPRsimple started to document the situation regarding Zoom’s privacy and security concerns. Come here for specific updates: Zoom-ing Privacy Concerns Zoombombing Your Friday Afternoon…. We just keep Zooming to you with Updates Avoid the Waiting Room (for now or forever?) Passwords & Zoom…. When the NY AG comes a knocking […]

Earlier today, I wrote a blog about how to use passwords instead of links to access Zoom meetings and about how to enable Waiting Room (in addition to some other security features). This afternoon, Zoom sent an email to its customers about “Zoom Meetings Security Enhancements” that are coming April 5th . Zoom is enabling […]

No sooner had I mentioned Zoom as an application used for video and audio conferencing that was very popular with those of us working remotely and encouraged reading its privacy policy before using it, than problems with its privacy policy surfaced.  (See my blog).  Now there are problems with “Zoombombing,” the crashing of meetings on […]

Last week I wrote a blog about some of the steps you need to take if you have started using technologies you haven’t used before to assist in working remotely.  One of the steps discussed was looking at the privacy policies posted by each technology on its website to make sure you are comfortable with […]

Privacy is a buzz word today. We were before the trend. Our founder Lynn is a world-renowned privacy expert, and she has been at this since before this was a fashionable trend. She started GDPRsimple for SMBs to get ahead of the curve on privacy and data protection. And she has talked far and wide about the international privacy […]

With Covid19, large numbers of employees are working remotely, not going into the office, and are rapidly adopting technologies that they hadn’t used before in order to be able to continue to service their customers.  We at GDPRsimple have always worked remotely because for part of the year I live in a different state than my co-founder.  […]

With the onset of Covid-19, we at GDPRsimple are putting together privacy and data protection resources below. Now that your entire company is working remotely, what do you need to do differently for the GDPR? Zoom Specific Updates Data Commissioner Individual Rights Requests Expectations during Covid-19 Hold up Hungary, Individual Rights still exist! Check back […]

A New Year’s Resolution for SMEs:  If you haven’t put the GDPR into practice yet, you should start now! By Lynn Goldstein, Founder of GDPRsimple You keep saying to yourself:  “GDPR, what is it?  I know that we needs to do something about the GDPR.”  Or you are saying:  “It’s our 2020 goal to do […]

We at GDPRsimple put together a series of posts on what is the GDPR. Please keep coming back to this page to see new posts and updates to old posts as information becomes available. What’s with all that jargon in the GDPR? What types of individual rights are there under the GDPR? The right of […]