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IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney's office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app was deceiving its users in how it was using their geolocation data. The 2019 lawsuit claimed, the app's permission prompt for users to share their geolocation data did not make them aware that it was also selling that data to third-party companies.
European Union privacy regulators are wrangling over the penalty Ireland's data privacy watchdog was set to issue Twitter for a data breach, pushing back the case's long awaited conclusion under the bloc's tough new data privacy rules. The Irish Data Privacy Commission was expected to issue its decision in the Twitter case, which would be its first involving a U.S. technology company since the new privacy law, known as GDPR, took effect in 2018, allowing for hefty fines.
Anti-vaccine websites, which could play a key role in promoting public hesitancy about a potential COVID-19 vaccine, are far more likely to be found via independent search engines than through an internet giant like Google. The study, led by researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, showed that independent search engines returned between 3 and 16 anti-vaccine websites in the first 30 results, while Google.com returned none.
Maximizing data privacy should be on every organization's priority list. We all know how important it is to keep data and applications secure, but what happens when access to private data is needed to save lives? Should privacy be sacrificed? Does it need to be?
Corporate culture, lack of privacy teams hurt privacy initiatives. Despite the common refrain of "It's not a matter of if, but when" in relation to dealing with a privacy breach, companies are still struggling to implement data privacy protocols, according to a recent TechRepublic Premium survey.
People's Right to Safety must be preserved for the protection of people. There is a strong need for finding the optimal balance between privacy and safety.
TechRepublic's cheat sheet about the Facebook data privacy scandal covers the ongoing controversy surrounding the illicit use of profile information. Fallout from a confluence of factors in the Facebook data privacy scandal has come to bear in the last week of July 2018.
As consumers' concerns about their digital privacy continue to grow and who is responsible for guarding it remains unclear, new research conducted by Ponemon Institute reveals a lack of empowerment consumers feel when it comes to their data privacy. 60% of consumers believe government regulation should help address the privacy risks facing consumers today, of which 34% say government regulation is needed to protect personal privacy and 26% believe a hybrid option should be pursued.
"According to a Ponemon Institute study sponsored by ID Experts, a provider of identity protection and data breach services, consumers have taken notice. The study, Privacy and Security in a Digital World: A Study of Consumers in the United States, found that, on a scale of 1 to 10, 86% of adults said they are"Very concerned" about how Facebook and Google use their personal information. "Most consumers do not believe big tech companies alone will protect their privacy rights through self-regulation."