Understanding PIPA: Why Do We Need Privacy Legislation?

In a four-part series, Conyers will be diving into different topics relating to Bermuda's privacy legislation, including: how do we prepare for PIPA, the role and requirements of privacy officers and what are our rights as individuals? In this first article, Conyers provides an introduction to PIPA, why we need it and what is its purpose.

In recent years, privacy and data protection are hot topics. It's not difficult to see why: as technology has evolved, so has the way that organisations store, use and process our data and personal information. Sometimes a company's use of personal data is straightforward and transparent: a company takes and stores a customer's information for the purpose of processing their sales order. But what of the times when their use is more opaque? Or when the data collected is far broader than what you expect or is not proportionate to what the company actually needs? What of data breaches, when our details are accessed by a hacker? Or