Serving the emergency response niche within employee duty of care, publicly traded Everbridge has signed nearly 4,000 new enterprise customers during the past eight years. This summer the company acquired NC4, a curator of risk data. It also maintains a partnership with International SOS, a leader in travel risk management. Everbridge started in the wake…
New York — Amadeus IT Group is working with other industry players on some sort of standards initiative related to privacy and, specifically, the General Data Protection Regulation. Earlier industry efforts on a code of conduct never got off the ground. “We have taken a collaborative approach to GDPR,” Amadeus North America general counsel Jorge Reynardus told attendees to…
[UPDATE, Oct. 25, 2017: The European Union affirmed the Privacy Shield framework following its first annual review. It announced some recommendations about how companies should communicate participation, and ways the U.S. Department of Commerce can ensure the agreement’s integrity. Recent adopters of the framework in corporate travel include ATPI, Colpitts, Radius and Travel Incorporated.] A…
A few dozen companies committed to upholding European Union law when handling its citizens’ data under the new Privacy Shield framework created by the U.S. Department of Commerce and European Commission. One of them is travel management company World Travel Inc. of Pennsylvania. The framework may not be a permanent replacement for the Safe Harbor…
The most common and largely practical way to locate travelers in a crisis is to look at who intended to travel to the area and ping them. Credit card swipe data is another way follow an employee’s path. Potentially even more effective, GPS-based tracking is challenged by privacy concerns and battery drain. However, a relatively…
[UPDATE, Oct. 9: Amadeus statement included. An Oct. 12 BCD Travel statement is here.] Travel and expense management providers don’t expect drastic changes in response to the European Court of Justice’s annulment of a key EU-U.S. data privacy accord. The data will still flow. But they’re attentive to these and similar developments, and thinking about where they may need…
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