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Is Your Data GDPR Compliant Yet?

Melissa Team | Address Quality, Article, Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, GDPR, Global Address Verification, Global Business, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global IP Locator, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, Golden Record, Identity Resolution | Data Protection, data quality, Data Regulation, Digital Identity Verification, EU Data, GDPR, identify matching records, matching, Single Customer View

If you work with data, or if data is important to your brand, you’ve no doubt heard about GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation is a piece of legislation which came into effect across the European Union on May 25, 2018. It not only affects European organizations, but any companies worldwide who market and have eCommerce operations that reach a European audience.… Read More

New Report Examines Dueling Priorities in Banking: Identity Verification and Customer Experience

Author | Customer Identities, Data Quality, Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, GDPR, Global Data Quality, Global ID Verification, Identity Resolution, News & Events, Press Release | data quality, eIDV, fraud prevention, GDPR, global ID verification, ID Resolution, identity verification, IDV, know your customer, KYC, Minimize false positives, news, Press Release, Watchlist

Aite Group Assessment Highlights Melissa’s Approach to Verify Identity at Onboarding, Complementing Industry Mandate for Easy, Frictionless Banking

Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – February 27, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced availability of “Identity Verification: Successful Strategies to Minimize False Positives and Risk,” a new report commissioned by Melissa and produced by Aite Group.… Read More

Google Gets Nailed for GDPR

Author | Data Cleansing, Duplicate Elimination, GDPR | Data Privacy Day, dedupe, deduplication, duplicate elimination, GDPR, MatchUp, remove duplicate data

Today is Data Privacy Day! A good day to remind our readers about GDPR data privacy regulations and those pesky goalposts.

If you haven’t been keeping up, the GDPR hammer is coming down hard and fast on tech giants like Google, who was recently hit with a fine totaling 50 million Euros (about $57,192,500) by France’s data protection regulator CNIL. Anyone familiar with Google’s omnipresence in the digital arena and $111 billion in earnings will immediately notice that the fine, while large, is a softball in comparison with the data protection’s capacity to impose mind boggling fines – up to 4% of global annual revenue.… Read More

The Money Laundering Bad Guys Never Quit

Author | Address Verification, Customer Identities, Data Cleansing, Data Profiling, Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, Email Verification, FinTech, Full Contact Authentication, Fuzzy Matching, GDPR, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global Phone Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, Personator, Personator World | Digital Identity Verification, eIDV, identity management, identity resolution, identity verification, know your customer, KYC

Businesses that Neglect ‘Know Your Customer’ Regulations are Messing with Fate and Government Regulations

Here’s the weird thing about money laundering: The problem just doesn’t want to go away. According to statistics compiled by the IRS, the ways that crooks hide the sources of their ill-gotten gains appear to be infinitely creative, with investigations and prosecutions remaining steady over recent years.… Read More

Melissa-Powered GDPR Risk Audits from DataDelta Uncover Hidden Risks in Right to Erasure Compliance

Melissa Team | Data Audit, Data Governance, Data Quality, GDPR, Global Data Quality, MDM, News & Events | data audit, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, global data quality

Inspired by GDPR Survey Results, Audits Reveal Blind Spot in Accuracy Assumptions of Single Customer View Platforms

Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, and DataDelta, a 14-year leader in Master Data Management (MDM) match accuracy analytics, today announced two new audit solutions to support governance, risk, and compliance officers in complying with the E.U.’s… Read More