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The advent of the CCPA and other similar regulations marks a sea change in how companies need to manage data and consumer privacy. In 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation, the biggest remake of data privacy rules affecting European citizens in more than 20 years, required similar actions.
On Wednesday, more than 50 advocacy groups accused Google of exploiting poor people by failing to police misbehaving Android apps on cheap phones. The advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Privacy International, to name a few, published an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking him "To take action against exploitative pre-installed software on Android devices."
On Wednesday, more than 50 advocacy groups accused Google of exploiting poor people by failing to police misbehaving Android apps on cheap phones. The advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Privacy International, to name a few, published an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking him "To take action against exploitative pre-installed software on Android devices."
One of the bigger challenges with the CCPA is the question of tracking the location of that user data, Terry Ray, SVP and fellow with Imperva, tells Threatpost. So CCPA changes a little bit of it in that CCPA says, look, you know, we're not asking everybody to comply to this, we're asking people that are going to store what California considered a reasonable amount of data - 50,000 records - if you store more than that you're relevant to CCPA, you have to start thinking about how am I going to protect that data, monitor that data, find that data and ultimately deal with processes around the potential breach of that data.
Google's controversial voice Assistant is getting a series of new commands designed to work like privacy-centric 'undo' buttons. Google hopes its new commands will counter that impression by offering offers some control over what Assistant pays attention to.
At CES 2020, Facebook privacy officer says new California law doesn't apply because the company doesn't sell data, only ads. Based on a CES 2020 roundtable discussion among privacy officers, your opinion on data privacy depends almost entirely on where you work.
Facebook, Samsung and Ring have unveiled new or improved privacy and security tools at the 2020 CES consumer electronics show taking place this week in Las Vegas. Facebook announced a revamped version of Privacy Checkup, a tool launched in 2014 in an effort to make it easier for users to manage the information they share on the social media network.
Google has temporarily disconnected Xiaomi's IP cameras from its Home Hub service after a user reported that he was seeing images from other people's devices. Reddit user u/Dio-V found that Xiaomi's Mijia 1080p IP camera was sending still images from other peoples' homes when he accessed it via his Google Home Hub.
Google last week disabled all Xiaomi integrations on Nest Hub after learning that some users could access other people's camera feeds. Although the Mi Home Security Camera Basic 1080p was found at fault, Google decided to disable all Xiaomi integrations on its devices.
A landmark privacy rights bill took effect Jan. 1, 2020 in California and will have broad implications for U.S. consumers and businesses. The California Consumer Privacy Act mandates strict requirements for companies to notify users about how their user data will be used and monetized along with giving them straightforward tools for opting out.