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Fortune Magazine: 25 Ideas That Will Shape the 2020s

Fortune asked 25 of the sharpest minds to weigh in on the epic, disruptive, thrilling, terrifying, and fascinating ideas that will mold the next decade. The future is now. #8. The 31st human right should be to own your medical data. There is a fundamental lack of trust between consumers and corporations. The relationship is …

This is how Facebook learns what you buy at physical stores in order to show you relevant ads — and how to opt out

Facebook gathers information about what you buy — both online and in physical stores — in order to serve you ads that correspond to those purchases.The practice is one of many ways Facebook leverages its wealth of user data to offer advertisers tools to target specific audiences.This is a breakdown of how Facebook learns about …

California’s AG will prosecute companies that weren’t CCPA compliant by January 1st

Attorney General (AG) Xavier Becerra clarified at a news conference in Sacramento that he fully expects businesses to be compliant with the CCPA immediately starting January 1st, 2020, and that his office will enforce violations that occurred before July 1st. Read the full post on the DataWallet Medium site California’s AG will prosecute companies that …

It’s Time for Contextual Identity

Elizabeth M. Renieris, founder of HackyLawyer wrote this important piece for organizations thinking about consent as part of their #GDPR / #CCPA planning. Adopting the ideas of contextual identity will reduce the risk of your propositions failing. “Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination …

Letter: Legal instruments exist to empower us, the data subjects

“It seems every news cycle comes with its share of “data gloom”. Just look at lamentations over a “loss of digital sovereignty” (John Thornhill, November 26) or the dismayed unveiling of healthcare websites’ opaque data tracking practices (Rana Foroohar, November 18). The tools we need to empower us, the data subjects, have been hiding in …

Steve Wilson says digital identity is dead, so where do we go from here?

“Digital identity” opens up a huge can of worms, or what Wilson calls a “sea change” in the entire field:  It turns out that the problems we’ve been trying to solve in digital identity are actually much bigger problems across the digital economy, to do with verification of claims and verification of data – the …

8 Fundamental Data Anonymization Mistakes That Could Put Your Business At Risk

For data about EU citizens, it shouldn’t be possible to ‘single out an individual, link records relating to an individual or infer information concerning an individual’ without their consent – according to the GDPR. However, there are many situations where you need to use the data, for example, to facilitate software development, where you need …

Web Summit 2019 – The Privacy Track

How Can Privacy be Profitable? For any organization holding its customer’s personal data, GDPR and CCPA have upped the ante on Privacy. The big question for marketing and product leaders is ‘How can privacy be profitable?’ Chasing the goal of profitability through privacy, I curated the Privacy Conference at Web Summit 2019. I attended sessions …