Digital Business & Compliance
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Retarus renews FSQS-NL certification
Read moreWe are proud to announce that Retarus has extended its FSQS-NL certification with flying colors as usual. FSQS-NL is a community of financial institutions based in the Netherlands, collaborating to harmonize risk management and compliance.
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Retarus Cloud Fax is TX-RAMP Level 2 certified
Read moreRetarus has attained TX-RAMP Level 2 Certification, the highest level available under the current TX-RAMP framework. This means that State of Texas agencies, as well as companies working with data from these agencies, can now depend on Retarus’ industry-leading digital fax technology to ensure greater security in communications while optimizing costs.
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Our Status Page now also provides information about certificate changes
Read moreThe Retarus Status Page is set to be enhanced through a handy new feature. In future, all certificate changes affecting public services will automatically be announced in the course of our change management process.
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Max Schrems shoots down new transatlantic data privacy treaty
Read moreThis week, the European Commission adopted a new adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Max Schrems, the influential Austrian lawyer and data privacy activist who already successfully had the two previous incarnations of the treaty overturned by the European Court of Justice (CJEU), nevertheless sees the new treaty as little more than a…
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Retarus offsets carbon footprint
Read moreRetarus’ head office in Munich has purchased certificates for 60 tons of CO2, offsetting the fossil fuels required for heating the premises and other unavoidable emissions in 2023.
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Retarus now a DE-CIX DirectCLOUD partner
Read moreDE-CIX customers and partners are now able to communicate via a private, direct connection on the Retarus Enterprise Cloud, bypassing the public internet. In many cases, this offers a smart alternative to VPN (virtual private networking), MPLS (multiprotocol label switching), or a leased line.
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Why trust is crucial in the digital age
Read moreSpencer Izard, Research Director at PAC (Pierre Audoin Consultants) in London, has shared his thoughts about digital trust and how the pandemic has accelerated its rise to prominence for companies, in a recent PAC blog post.
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Privacy Shield, Standard Contractual Clauses, CLOUD Act: Privacy activist Max Schrems’ advice for worried companies
Read moreEven if US cloud providers are running their own data centers in Europe, the data stored there is not protected from access under the FISA Act, according to Schrems. Also, new SCC versions will be much more complicated to apply, says Europe’s most well-known data protection activist.
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Data protection authority in Germany declares use of Mailchimp unlawful in certain cases
Read moreEuropean companies using US-based services are increasingly burdened with the responsibility of conducting and documenting data protection assessments.