Since the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandate, marketers worldwide have reluctantly appended privacy consent mechanisms to their site user flow. The dark patterns they use show they have no viable alternative but to collect cookie data. Consumers respond by providing fake data, using ad blockers and other techniques. Escaping this vicious cycle requires …
Our everything-digital era has made it easier to preserve every last scrap of information about our lives, but eventually, many of us will have to face the question of who really controls our photo albums, letters, diaries, and other personal mementoes stored in the cloud or on password-protected hard drives. As it is, tech companies …
A 2-part blog series for anyone interested in the protections that exist for customers who chose to access their financial data through third-party providers. We hope readers will come away with a clearer view of the different roles of businesses involved in open banking. Part I is about the ‘data retrievers’ — account information services …
“The Italian Court goes beyond the assumption that personal data as the expression of personality rights, subject to specific and not renounceable forms of protection cannot be treated at the same time as an economic asset when they are collected and processed by an organization to extract economic value. In such a context, if the …
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Clearview AI has apparently mined the internet for billions of photos of people, largely from social media sites and the open web, In theory, you should not have to worry about your social media posts being used in such a fashion. Whether or not posting an image online means you have implicitly consented to the …
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Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications) Draft #ePrivacy Regulation
The Washington State Senate has passed a privacy bill that would give state residents new rights over data collection and use, including the right to opt out of targeted advertising. The Washington Privacy Act, which cleared the Senate 46-1 late Friday, now moves to the House where its future is uncertain. Privacy Bill Clears Washington …
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A first draft of the artificial intelligence policy, which is being coordinated by Ms. Vestager, will be released on Wednesday, along with broader recommendations outlining the bloc’s digital strategy for the coming years. Silicon Valley executives are taking action as Europe has increasingly set the standard on tech policy and regulation. In recent years, the …
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“Programmatic Advertising is in a perpetual state of flux. Exciting new channels, buying methods, and success metrics are contrasted with transparency issues, mistrust, and ever-decreasing engagement rates. Privacy legislation, such as Europe’s GDPR and the recently enacted CCPA in the U.S., amount to a new age of stringent data collection, with consumer consent being essential – data needs to …
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