And Now There Are Three…. The Colorado Privacy Act
Colorado has now joined California and Virginia to become the third US state to pass comprehensive data privacy legislation when Governor Jared Polis signed the [__Colorado Privacy Act__](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021a_190_signed.pdf) (the “CPA”) into law on July 8, 2021. The new law is set to take effect on July 1, 2023. Read in ImagineBC: Register!
Data privacy in China: Beijing to define data that will not be allowed to leave the country easily
Chinese policymakers will soon release guidelines for defining “important data”, classifying it into eight categories based on their impact on national security, a top researcher at a state-owned cybersecurity think tank has revealed. Data to face… Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Opinion | Privacy is a fiction in the Internet age. A priest’s case proves it.
The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned last month after a newsletter used data from his cellphone to confirm his use of the dating app Grindr and track his movements to gay bars. Questions about hypocrisy aside, this invasion of an individual’s intimate life should be alarming when it happens to anyone — […]
The privacy battle Apple isn’t fighting
Browser-level privacy setting mandated by California is absent from Safari, iOS. Read on our data secure channel. Join Us Now!
Targeted ads aren’t just annoying, they can be harmful. Here’s how to fight back
Five years since the Brexit vote and three since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we’re now familiar with the role that targeted political advertising can play in fomenting polarization. It was revealed in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica had used data harvested from 87 million Facebook profiles, without users’ consent, to help Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign […]
In some California privacy cases, analytics trackers are in the crosshairs — and violators could be charged by the cookie
“Why would I care about cookies?” The question was one privacy lawyer Odia Kagan heard from a client back before January 2020 when California’s privacy law went into effect, and companies engaged in cookie tracking thought there might be more wiggle room with the law. Back then, said Kagan, who serves as chair of the […]
Big Tech Is Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws, and Yes, You Should Be Suspicious
The Markup reviewed existing and proposed legislation, committee testimony, and lobbying records in more than 20 states and identified 14 states with privacy bills built upon the same industry-backed framework as Virginia’s, or with weaker models. The bills are backed by a who’s who of Big Tech–funded interest groups and are being shepherded through
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Facebook Still Doesn’t Get It – People Actually Care About Their Privacy
Facebook is still bitter about Apple’s latest update to iOS. As a reminder, Apple added a requirement to iOS 14.5, known as App Tracking Transparency (ATT) that requires developers to request permission before tracking users. It’s not all that surprising that Facebook is upset, especially when you consider some studies show that as many as […]
As ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data, privacy watchers see fears coming true
Google’s automated cookieless ad targeting method — or Federated Learning of Cohorts — is supposed to protect privacy by providing people with a greater degree of anonymity than the third-party cookie offered. Instead, it may make it quicker and easier for advertising companies to identify and access information about people online. Read on our data […]
Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives
The phrase “data is the new oil” is the cliche du jour of the tech industry. It was coined by Clive Humby, the genius behind Tesco’s loyalty card, who argued that data was “just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, […]
