The Compliance Landscape — Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup
PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA mapped out so you know which applies to your project and when
You're building an app. Users are signing up. Maybe you're processing payments, storing health records, or selling to European customers. And suddenly someone on your team says, "We need to be compliant."
Compliant with what, exactly?
The compliance world is a maze of acronyms, and each one represents a different set of rules written by a different authority for a different reason. The good news is that you don't need to memorize every regulation. You need to know which ones apply to your project and what they actually require. That's what this lesson is about.
Why Compliance Exists
Compliance regulations exist because industries learned the hard way that voluntary best practices don't work at scale. Every major regulation traces back to real incidents where real people were ha
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