Free Privacy & Data Protection Tools
Privacy and data protection tools help you map personal data, honor access and deletion requests, and meet obligations under laws such as GDPR and PIPEDA. These free tools give startups a practical starting point for privacy compliance before hiring a privacy lead.
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osano
Privacy & Data ProtectionLet Osano help you manage your privacy program so you don’t have to worry about the risks of noncompliance. In five minutes, your website will go from liability to a shining example of how to do privacy right.
Ugly Email
Privacy & Data ProtectionSome companies use email tracking software to tell if you've opened their emails or clicked their links. Ugly Email is a plug-in for Gmail that labels tracked emails with an icon. When interacting with these email, Ugly Email blocks the trackers from working correctly.
Tor
Privacy & Data ProtectionThe Onion Router (TOR) is a network of servers that allow people to browse the internet anonymously. The software prevents website tracking tools from learning your physical location. It also allows you to browse websites that may be blocked in your region.
Privacy Badger
Privacy & Data ProtectionPrivacy Badger is a browser plug-in that can be used to block tracking cookies by domain or website. It can be used to block these trackers from gathering your browsing information to ensure your privacy is kept secure when browsing.
PIPEDA Self-Assessment Tool
Privacy & Data ProtectionThe PIPEDA Self-Assessment Tool helps medium and large sized enterprises create and implement privacy governance and management. This tool was created by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
GDPR Checklist
Privacy & Data ProtectionGDPR.eu is an online library of resources to help organizations achieve and maintain GDPR compliance. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation introduced and enforced through the European Union.
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Data Protection (GDPR) Self-Assessment
Privacy & Data ProtectionThis GDPR self-assessment tool provides a set of checklists to help businesses assess their compliance with GDPR. The tool also features a simple report builder that suggests practical steps and resources to improve your data protection compliance.
Brave
Privacy & Data ProtectionBrave is a web browser that prioritizes data security. Brave blocks website tracking codes and removes ads automatically. This reduces the need to download multiple extensions in order to block ads, tracking codes, and ensure a secure internet browsing experience.
What Privacy & Data Protection Tools Do
Privacy and data protection tools help you know what personal data you hold, where it is, who can access it, and whether you are handling it the way privacy laws and your own policy say you do. They cover data discovery and classification, consent and cookie management, data subject request handling, privacy impact assessment templates, and data loss prevention that stops sensitive data leaving by email or upload.
For a small business in Canada or the United States that means PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, HIPAA where health data is involved, state privacy laws, and GDPR if any customers are in Europe. The free tools on this page turn those obligations into practical steps: a data map, a records-of-processing register, a consent banner that works, and a way to answer an access request in the 30 days the law allows.
How to Choose a Privacy & Data Protection Tool
- Start with data discovery; every other privacy control depends on knowing where personal data actually sits.
- Choose a consent management tool that records and can prove consent, not only one that shows a banner.
- Pick a data subject request tool with a workflow and deadline tracking if you have more than a handful of requests a year.
- Prefer DLP that works in the mail and cloud storage you already use over a separate gateway.
Need help with Privacy & Data Protection?
IRM delivers privacy impact assessments and data protection programs for PIPEDA, Law 25, HIPAA, and GDPR.
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Free ISO 27001 Gap AssessmentPrivacy & Data Protection Tools: Frequently Asked Questions
Which privacy laws apply to a Canadian SaaS company?
PIPEDA federally, Quebec Law 25 for Quebec residents (with its own consent, breach, and privacy officer requirements), provincial laws in Alberta and British Columbia, plus GDPR for European customers and US state laws such as CCPA for Californian ones. Most of these share the same core: know your data, limit it, protect it, and honour individual rights.
What is a privacy impact assessment?
A structured review of a new system, process, or vendor that identifies the personal data involved, the risks to the individuals, and the controls that reduce them. It is required by several laws for higher-risk processing and is expected by enterprise customers before they share data with you.
Do we need data loss prevention tools?
If staff can email or upload customer or health data, DLP that blocks or flags it is the control that stops the most common accidental breach. Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace include DLP features that small businesses rarely turn on; start there.
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