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Immuta, the automated data governance company, announced a technology and business partnership with Snowflake, the cloud data platform, enabling joint customers to securely share sensitive data with automated privacy protection, while adhering to data privacy regulations and business rules. Featuring a new, native integration with Snowflake, the Immuta platform now empowers Snowflake customers to safely share even the most sensitive data sets securely by utilizing advanced, automated anonymization techniques.
Privitar, the leading data privacy platform provider, announced that the Privitar Data Privacy Platform now natively integrates with the Google Cloud Platform. "Traditional security measures such as encryption and attribute based access control are not sufficient as we increase the exposure to sensitive data assets in the cloud. Complimentary privacy controls are essential, particularly for analytics applications that need to optimise data utility," said Jason du Preez, CEO of Privitar.
As governments race to develop mobile tracing apps to help contain infections, attention is turning to how officials will ensure users' privacy. Traditional methods involving in-person interviews of patients are time consuming and labor intensive, so countries want an automated solution in the form of smartphone contact tracing apps.
The success of contact tracing apps will then depend on the overall active uptake by users, and whether the big data analysts have got their figures right. "Numerous vulnerabilities have been discovered like BlueFrag, which affected IOS and Android." He also warns, "Contact tracing apps need to be regularly tested for vulnerabilities and critical updates must be deployed immediately. These apps must also be prohibited from activating smart assistants. People must limit the location settings to run only when approved and when in use."
Organizations who plan on manually processing CCPA data subject requests or data subject access requests will spend between $140k - $275k per million consumer records they have in their systems, according to DataGrail. B2C companies should prepare to process approximately 100 to 194 requests per million consumer records each year.
Giving users of smart assistants the option to adjust settings for privacy or content delivery, or both, doesn't necessarily increase their trust in the platform, according to a team of Penn State researchers. Trust in Amazon Alexa went up for regular users who were given the option to adjust their privacy and content settings, the researchers found in a recent study.
12 of the 15 most popular video call apps meet Mozilla's Minimum Security Standards, according to a new report. Researchers with Mozilla decided to comb through the privacy policies, app specifications, and security features of 15 video call apps and platforms in their latest report, "*Privacy Not Included.
To help individuals and organizations choose video call apps that suit their needs and their risk appetite, Mozilla has released a new "Privacy Not Included" report that focuses on video call apps. Three of the evaluated apps have failed to meet Mozilla's Minimum Security Standards, but that doesn't mean that they should not be used.
The UK has decided to break with growing international consensus and insist its upcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app is run through centralised British servers - rather than follow the decentralized Apple-Google approach. Within the details over how it would work, the memo revealed the NHS and UK government reckon the contact-tracing protocols built by Apple and Google protect user privacy under advisement only.
While most people will say they are extremely concerned with their online privacy, previous experiments have shown that, in practice, users readily divulge privacy information online. A team of Penn State researchers identified a dozen subtle - but powerful - reasons that may shed light on why people talk a good game about privacy, but fail to follow up in real life.