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With more data also comes a deeper responsibility to use this data appropriately. As colleges and universities continue along their transformation journey, transparency, effectively assessing risk, and following new legislation will be critical in creating a culture of data privacy and security and determining which technology solutions will ensure data is appropriately used and protected.

What is Schrems II? Schrems, a former law student, brought the latest edition of the long-running case in 2015, complaining that Ireland's data protection agency still wasn't preventing Facebook Ireland Ltd from beaming his data to the US under Privacy Shield. In July 2020, the EU Court of Justice struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the political bloc and the US, triggering a fresh wave of legal confusion over the transfer of EU subjects' data to America.

Cignpost Diagnostics, which trades as ExpressTest and offers £35 tests for holidaymakers, said it holds the right to analyse samples from seals to "Learn more about human health" - and sell information on to third parties. Individuals are required to give informed consent for their sensitive medical data to be used but customers' consent for their DNA to be sold now as buried in Cignpost's online documents.

Merkle surveyed 2,000 consumers to study the amount and extent of data consumers are willing to share, how they feel about emerging data privacy policies, and how well their attitudes align with their own expectations for more connected and contextual experiences. "Our study shows that consumers are increasingly aware of what personal data they are sharing with brands and have a heightened sense of the value exchange that they receive," said Michael Komasinski, global CEO at Merkle.

Google on Wednesday announced plans to bring its Privacy Sandbox initiatives to Android in a bid to expand its privacy-focused, but also less disruptive, advertising technology beyond the desktop web. "The Privacy Sandbox on Android builds on our existing efforts on the web, providing a clear path forward to improve user privacy without putting access to free content and services at risk," Anthony Chavez, vice president of product management for Android security and privacy, said.

If the British government fails to persuade the tech titans to back away from implementing end-to-end encryption in messaging apps then its next tactic will be to try to mobilize public opinion against it by claiming the technology puts society in moral peril. The public probably doesn't like the idea of abusers hiding behind encryption, but many folks are equally suspicious of the government's motives.

Google plans to extend its rework of web ad technology - the optimistically named Privacy Sandbox - to Android devices in an effort to limit the misuse of data in its mobile ecosystem. It began to take shape a year after Google undertook Project Strobe, a rethink of Google Account and Android data access in the wake of ongoing security and privacy problems.

Data privacy, the process of collecting, storing, managing and sharing access to data with third parties, is a crucial factor in ensuring business success. A KPMG report last August revealed that "62% felt that their companies should do more to protect customer data" and "86% of [consumers] said they feel a growing concern about data privacy, while 78% expressed fears about the amount of data being collected. Some 40% of the consumers surveyed don't trust companies to use their data ethically, and 13% don't even trust their own employers."

The latter is owned by the employer and we adjust our expectations of privacy accordingly. These won't always prevent privacy compromise through data leakage, though - such as when we become the victim of a colleague sending an email to the wrong recipient.

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over the company's use of cookies to allegedly track Facebook users' internet activity even after they had logged off from the platform. The social media company will be required to delete all of the data it illegally collected from those users.