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"There are more than 900 global privacy laws to which organizations must adhere, making privacy management an ongoing and dynamic challenge," said Chris Babel, CEO, TrustArc. Though 90% of respondents agree or strongly agree that they are "Mindful of privacy as a business," many privacy professionals are left building privacy programs without automation.
For businesses preparing to comply with California's new data privacy law, the first challenge is figuring out how much data is covered by the law. Christine Lyon, a partner at Morrison & Foerster and a member of the firm's global privacy and data security group, said that the CCPA establishes a new right that US consumers have never had. She also said that the data protected by the CCPA includes much more than just email address and name.
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Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. As part of this, an independent, third-party assessor will also review Facebook's privacy practices and report on them to the Privacy Committee and the FTC, both quarterly and annually.
Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it. Smartphone apps have been touted as a high-tech tool in the effort to track down potential COVID-19 infections.
This has led to a resurgence of interest, advances, and commercialization in the area of privacy enhancing technologies, or PETs, a powerful category of technologies that enable, enhance, and preserve data privacy throughout its lifecycle. By adopting a data-centric approach to privacy and security, these technologies help ensure that sensitive data remains protected during processing.
Norway's health authorities said on Monday they had suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of the new coronavirus after the national data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy. Launched in April, the smartphone app Smittestopp was set up to collect movement data to help authorities trace the spread of COVID-19, and inform users if they had been exposed to someone carrying the novel coronavirus.
This investment validates the strength of Transcend's breakthrough technology, strategy, and team, and positions Transcend to capture the entire data privacy market. "Operating on one person's personal data across hundreds of data systems is extremely complex, but it's all beneath the hood with Transcend. We distilled this process into something that is so simple for companies to use, they can start offering their users data rights in an afternoon."
Trend Micro has pulled the Privacy Browser from its Dr Safety Android security suite following the discovery of a reoccurring flaw that could be abused to trick people into thinking malicious pages were legit. Trend responded by pulling the app from its Android security suite.
The methods used by contact tracing apps also play a role in the question of effectiveness versus privacy. Contact tracing apps store contact logs, encryption keys, and other sensitive information on the mobile device.