Over 40 groups call on Congress to finally pass federal data privacy standard
A collection of more than 40 human rights, internet rights, and public interest groups are calling on Congress to pass data privacy legislation and investigate Facebook in the wake of a whistleblower testifying before a Senate committee last week. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps
While many studies have looked at privacy properties of the Android and Google Play app ecosystem, comparatively much less is known about iOS and the Apple App Store, the most widely used ecosystem in the US. At the same time, there is increasing competition around privacy between these smartphone operating system providers. In this paper, […]
Big Tech to face another bipartisan U.S. antitrust bill
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, from favoring their products and services. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
FTC Urged To Pass Privacy Rules, Require Companies To Obtain Consumers’ Consent
Nine Democratic U.S. senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission to pass privacy rules that could require companies to obtain consumers’ explicit consent before using their personal data. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
How privacy and security challenges may cause people to abandon your website
People have certain expectations when they sign into a website. They want the login and registration process to be smooth and convenient. They want to be able to access their information quickly and without any hiccups. And increasingly they want to know if and how their private data is being collected and used. Fail to […]
Dancing with the data privacy devil – The future implications of a shifting data privacy landscape
Our ‘right to privacy’ was officially recognised in the Universal Bill of Human Rights by the UN in 1949. It pertains that nobody should be under arbitrary interference with their privacy. It essentially means that you have the right to an ability to seclude personal information. Some things other people just shouldn’t know about. Read […]
DoorDash sues New York City over rights to customer data
DoorDash is suing New York City over a new law that requires delivery companies to share customer data with restaurants. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Data watchdogs fail to police Google, Facebook and Apple, says civil liberties group
Some 98% of the 164 data protection cases of ‘European significance’ referred to the Data Protection Commission ‘remain unresolved’, according to a new report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
UK dials up the spin on data reform, claiming ‘simplified’ rules will drive ‘responsible’ data sharing
The U.K. government has announced a consultation on plans to shake up the national data protection regime, as it looks at how to diverge from European Union rules following Brexit. It’s also a year since the U.K. published a national data strategy in which said it wanted pandemic levels of data sharing to become Britain’s […]
US GDPR-style federal privacy law ‘should replace mess of separate laws’
Privacy and civil rights activists say that a US GDPR-style federal privacy law should be passed to replace the confusing mass of federal and state laws in place at present. This is an approach also favored by Apple, which wants the simplicity of a single set of privacy requirements across the US. Read on our […]
