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Apple exec explains privacy protections, while Facebook leader looks for loopholes
2020-01-08 03:07

At CES 2020, Facebook privacy officer says new California law doesn't apply because the company doesn't sell data, only ads.

Based on a CES 2020 roundtable discussion among privacy officers, your opinion on data privacy depends almost entirely on where you work.

Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, said the current privacy rules put too much burden on the consumer to defend individual data privacy.

Jane Horvath, senior director of Global Privacy at Apple, had a few examples of specific decisions Apple has made to minimize data collection.

Horvath from Apple said that the US should consider what happened in Europe when the European Union's first approach to data privacy was to encourage each member state to pass its own law, and the result was a bunch of incompatible laws that made data sharing impossible.


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Apple 68 212 1433 2208 257 4110
Facebook 29 0 11 46 54 111