Privacy for Profit

Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun?

“The future of privacy is likely to be complicated. For starters, no one can even agree what “privacy” means today. Some argue its first obituary was written 21 years ago when Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, pronounced: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That may, technically speaking, be true. A different …

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Persona raises $17.5 million to verify identities without humans in the loop

Persona’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows users to complete ID verification within seconds and obtain results as quickly. And its API and drop-in widget are designed to play nicely with existing apps and services. Persona raises $17.5 million to verify identities without humans in the loop

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

The Personal Data & identity Working Group Members review what is happening in the sector and how they plan to help move the sector forward. On the the increasing requirement for the sharing of individual’s health data, Digi.Me’s clients are asking for: Single Source of Data – business don’t want the job of collating/aggregating/rating multiple …

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Data Broker Registration

California law requires a data broker, as that term is defined in California Civil Code s.1798.99.80, to register with the Attorney General on its internet website that is accessible to the public. The law mandates that a data broker shall pay a registration fee and provide all of the below information (name; primary physical, email, …

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A Most Modern Slavery

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, …

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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 …

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It’s Time to Start Talking About Co-managed Data

“From the individual perspective, GDPR tells me that I’m now ‘in control of my data’. Well, I must have missed that bit. Or does someone really expect me to go to my 300 or so direct suppliers, read their policies, see my data, change or delete it where I need to, and pretend to not …

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The MyData Eco-system

This is a detailed and impressive post outlining the many different components required to create a data eco-system that genuinely enables individuals All of the components are listed out and described. Iain has been thinking about this for a long time, so this is a well considered architecture. The My Data Architecture by Iain Henderson …

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What is the Value of Your Data?

Here is what the latest research suggests about our perception of the value of personal data.

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