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The Dutch Data Protection Authority announced Thursday that it has imposed a fine of €750,000 on TikTok "For violating the privacy of young children". More specifically, TikTok failed to provide a privacy statement in the Dutch language, making it difficult for young children to understand what would happen to their data.
New research from Copenhagen Business School finds designers of cookie banners can affect users' privacy choices by manipulating the choice architecture and with simple changes can increase absolute consent by 17%. A website cookie banner is the consent management tool that allows users to give their consent to process their personal data. The research findings provide empirical evidence that shows people's data privacy decisions can be easily manipulated.
Mitch Lowe - co-founder senior executive of Netflix, long time president of Redbox and Moviepass, has joined UseCrypt. The UseCrypt platform is now available on AppStore and Google Play.
Skyflow launched PII Data Privacy Vault, a zero trust data vault for securely handling sensitive customer information. The PII Data Privacy Vault includes the new Skyflow Data Governance Engine, which enables fine-grained access control to data based on roles, policies, or attributes.
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 92 in the stable channel, with 35 security patches and with various other security improvements, such as better site isolation and phishing protection. Chrome 92 arrives with expanded Chrome Actions, to provide users with improved management of privacy and security options.
DuckDuckGo is rolling out an email privacy feature that strips incoming messages of trackers that can help profile you for better profiling and ad targeting. Currently in private beta, DuckDuckGo's Email Protection service aims at shielding you from hidden trackers that are often embedded in emails from various companies.
Privacy-enhancing computation is a new breed of technology that enables businesses to process, analyze, and share data without having to expose the underlying data or related algorithms. Differential privacy is gaining considerable traction across industries to solve the data sharing or intellectual property protection problems.
Little will happen until and unless the European Data Protection Authorities begin to enforce Schrems II. One year after the so-called Schrems II decision was made by the European Court of Justice, little has changed. Participants should note that privacy activist Max Schrems is watching; and he is not known for giving up where he has the law on his side.
When it comes to technologies fueled by data, such as artificial intelligence, it's even harder to strike the balance between equitable access and inherent risk. They've figured out how to do this without sharing their valuable data.
First California. Then Virginia. Now Colorado. Here’s a good comparison of the three states’ laws.