“With nearly 40 million residents, California and its frequently progressive legislature has been at the forefront of laws covering everything from plastic bag bans to animal welfare laws in recent years. Now, privacy is on the agenda.” https://www.cnet.com/news/californias-new-ccpa-privacy-rights-could-come-to-your-state-too/
Most people would be willing to give up privacy online in exchange for access to services such as Google, Box CEO Aaron Levie said. “I think that most consumers will make that trade,” Levie told CNBC. While data privacy laws like California’s pose a threat to the business model of some tech companies, Levie argued it …
Data is not the new oil. It is the new cotton, sugar, timber and coal. These sectors grew on the backs of slaves kidnapped from Africa and first forced on to Virginia’s shores in 1619. Four hundred years later our data is enslaved. Our data is captured and processed as it is created, from birth, …
Until the end of the 20th century, most young people could take one thing for granted: their embarrassing behavior would eventually be forgotten. It might be a bad haircut, or it might be getting drunk and throwing up at a party, but in an analog era, even if the faux pas were documented in a …
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“For all the consensus we have managed to build on the need for people to take control over their personal information, entrepreneurs around the world are still struggling to find a working business model that effectively replaces current “dirty data” practices.” The post presents 6 takes on Privacy Privacy as a fundamental, inalienable human right …
In such a fast-evolving field as technology, it is perhaps inevitable that new regulations are out of date as soon as they emerge from the legislative mangle. So it has proved with the EU’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation, six years in the making before coming into force in May 2018. Protecting data privacy needs …
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“Devices are cooling down as tech’s elite moves on to less tangible signifiers of wealth and luxury. As the majority of the U.S. arrives at a smartphone-saturated future, Silicon Valley is neck-deep in a backlash against it. Perhaps more than anyone else, those who work in technology are doing their best to back off in …
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The Times Privacy Project was given access to a data set with more than 50 billion location “pings” from the phones of more than 12 million Americans across several major cities. Each piece of information came down to a set of coordinates in time. The result is a tapestry of movement laid across a city …
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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides broader rights to consumers and stricter compliance requirements for businesses than any other state or federal privacy law on the books. Preparing for CCPA requires expert judgment and team effort. Arguably, the most challenging unanswered question is this: What is a sale under CCPA? Panel discussion with Eric …
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