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Data protection
The duties that attach the moment your business decides why and how personal information is processed.
5 practices · 5 common gaps
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Data, intellectual property, online conduct and platform liability.
Technology businesses concentrate risk in two places: the personal data they process, and the intellectual property they build on. Both scale faster than the governance around them.
The third dimension is conduct on a network. The Cybercrimes Act 2015 addresses unauthorised access, interception and misuse of computer systems, and it applies to how a business secures its own systems as well as to how it behaves.
Described in general terms. This is not a list of the authorisations your business needs — confirm those with the relevant regulator.
The areas of the Compliance Centre that matter most in this sector.
The duties that attach the moment your business decides why and how personal information is processed.
Brand, content, software and invention - what the business owns, what it merely licenses, and what it never secured at all.
How you describe, price, sell and stand behind what you offer - and how you handle it when a customer says you got it wrong.
Every commercial relationship is governed by something. The only question is whether it is a document you chose or a set of assumptions you did not.