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Data privacy concerns are on the rise, leading to an increased need for businesses to comply, but basic compliance is not enough. A shift to a privacy-first data economy, with transparency, control, & mutual benefits is the key to fix the broken ecosystem.

Concord registers as a Data Privacy Champion for the 2023 Data Privacy week to help spread data privacy awareness; WhatsApp hit with €5.5 million fine for violating data protection laws; Australia considering European-style right to be forgotten privacy laws.

Concord launches improved consent management controls; Why data privacy should matter to marketers; TikTok & Microsoft under fire in regards to data privacy.

Integrated Zapier experience, our new Shopify app, and our updated developer docs experience for both our Privacy API and our Site API.

Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act (VDCPA) goes into effect on January 1st along with California's CPRA; Meta to face ads reckoning and Microsoft moving on data localization.

CPRA takes effect January 1; Organizations continue to risk non-compliance.

Concord Accepted into Creative Destruction Lab; Cybersecurity Awareness Top of Mind This Month.

Through a competitive process, Concord was accepted to the Creative Destruction Lab Program at the University of British Columbia.

Concord Introduces New Self-Service Features; FTC Report Highlights Increasing Use of Dark Patterns

FTC to address data surveillance; Quebec rolls out new data privacy law.

Federal privacy legislation is introduced as the average cost of data breaches reaches a record high.

Expanded data mapping capabilities, the ability to receive copies of privacy requests via email, owner permissions, and a variety of other fixes and improvements.

Expanded list of data system attributes for data mapping/compliance documentation, easier handling of data privacy requests via our new automated compliance request workflows and data system tasks, and manual compliance request handling and compliance request history for users.

Concord serves as a Data Privacy Week Champion and dramatically expands upon their data systems functionality.

Data systems for data mapping/compliance documentation purposes and for future functionality for easier handling of data privacy requests, configurable Do Not Sell option that can be added to Privacy Center, and the first general availability version of our Zapier integration for connecting to third party services.

Concord selected to participate in exclusive Dcode accelerator.

Portland-based data privacy firm Concord selected by the U.S. Air Force & the Department of Defense to help modernize their data management and privacy processes.

Concord receives patent approvals for innovative consent & compliance solutions.

Custom email address for emails delivered to users, our new cross-site domain tracking support, and CSV export functionality.

Our first commercial platform release that also adds individual level notifications support, plus a number of additional reporting enhancements.

Large update to our reporting and analytics functionality, including our new dashboard and reporting widgets, plus the first version of our API docs site for developers.

Improvements to our Consent Types and Consent Events functionality and our new easy-to-use setup wizards.

Custom script functionality to make it easy to make custom code changes, the initial version of of our domains functionality and session service, and user permissions and roles.

New support for implied consent events, for use with implied consent scenarios (like privacy policy disclosures), and a refresh of our compliance requests functionality.

The 1st version of the Admin UI for configuration and reporting access as well as the new Privacy API, which provides secure authenticated access to the different Concord services.