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The lawsuit - one of more than 400 filed against tech companies big and small in the past five years, by one law firm's count - alleges that Facebook broke Illinois' strict biometric privacy law that allows people to sue companies that fail to get consent before harvesting consumers' data, including through facial and fingerprint scanning. "We're going to see a lot of constituents saying, 'Why not me?'" said Jay Edelson, a Chicago attorney whose firm first sued Facebook for allegedly breaking Illinois' law.
Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple's Safari web browser. Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a feature designed to reduce user tracking, has vulnerabilities that themselves allow user tracking.
Canada's privacy commissioner is taking Facebook to court to try to force the social network to make changes to its privacy practices. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has filed an application asking a federal court to declare that Facebook violated the country's privacy law over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission is launching an investigation into how Google uses customer data for its location services after the privacy watchdog received numerous complaints from consumer rights organizations across the European Union. The watchdog announced Tuesday that it has initiated an investigation into how Google's Ireland subsidiary, Google Ireland Limited, processes its customer location data and if the company is following rules and guidelines in accordance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
As health data privacy concerns heat up to a boiling point on multiple fronts, it's more essential than ever that patients get a clear opportunity to make a choice about whether their data is shared, says privacy advocate Twila Brase, who heads the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom. Federal regulators - to carry out a 21st Century Cures Act goal to drive medical innovation and improve patient care - are proposing standards that promote the use of application programming interfaces and consumer health apps to give patients access to their own health data from electronic health records.
As the wait continues for federal regulators to issue final rules for health IT interoperability and information blocking prevention, some industry stakeholders are raising serious concerns about the privacy of patient data accessed and shared using application programming interfaces and mobile consumer apps. While some skeptics suspect that some of the concerns expressed by Epic could be driven, in part, by competitive fears involving providing consumer app vendors access to patient health records, others say Epic's privacy worries are also legitimate.
Customer demands for increased data protection and privacy, the ongoing threat of data breaches and misuse by both unauthorized and authorized users, and preparation for the GDPR and similar laws around the globe spurred many organizations to make considerable privacy investments - which are now delivering strong returns, Cisco reveals. Organizations, on average, receive benefits 2.7 times their investment, and more than 40 percent are seeing benefits that are at least twice that of their privacy spend.
SEE: Cheat sheet: Facebook Data Privacy Scandal Scott Matteson: How do policymakers and enterprises around the world view data privacy in 2020? What trends should we be looking out for? Rina Shainski: Our right to personal privacy, specifically our data privacy, has become an increasingly important issue, driven by the realization that the growing abundance of data doesn't "Shield" individuals anymore. Privacy enhancing technologies represent a new, emerging category of technologies, and are increasingly being used to protect data privacy while enabling data use.
Cisco's 2020 Data Privacy Benchmark Study attempts to quantify an often-repeated claim from cybersecurity experts: investment in privacy improves overall cybersecurity. This year, Cisco wanted to examine what other benefits investment in privacy might bring; and more specifically, whether a dollar figure could be applied as an ROI. It queried 2,800 companies from 13 countries in a double-blind survey; and found that an investment of $100 dollars brings $270 in cybersecurity benefits.