Privacy

The European Commission (EC) recently published its second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which provides a mechanism for complying with data protection requirements for the transfer of personal data from EU citizens to U.S. companies for commercial purposes. The good news is that this second review went better…

Lawmakers in the Washington state Senate voted 46-1 this week in favor of a new privacy bill that would give consumers the right to prevent their personal data from being used for some forms of ad-targeting. The Washington Privacy Act, introduced by Senator Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle), would also allow consumers to learn…

ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, described a sweeping new vision for his platform. “The future of communication,” he wrote, “will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure.” The post raised all kinds of questions about Facebook’s business…

For 15 years, Facebook has pushed, prodded, cajoled, lured and tricked billions of people into sharing the most intimate details of their lives online, all purportedly in service of making the world “more open and connected”. On Wednesday, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg put forward a new idea: doing the opposite. “As I think…

Organizations on the hook for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance need a data protection officer (DPO) to audit all personal data and an automated, centralized process for managing data in order to avoid hefty fines like the one France leveraged on Google last month. Experts shared that and other advice…

Facebook has repeatedly withheld key data on its alleged efforts to clamp down on disinformation ahead of the European elections, the EU’s executive has said. Mark Zuckerberg’s company has been under fire from the European commission for failing to provide it with the “hard numbers” to prove that it was living up to…

he New York Department of Financial Services has launched an investigation into Facebook’s reported collection of data from third-party apps. According to The Wall Street Journal, the social media platform has been using partnerships with third-party apps to receive personal information on both Facebook and non-Facebook users. “It is abundantly clear…

A report by the lead data watchdog for a large number of tech giants operating in Europe shows a significant increase in privacy complaints and data breach notifications since the region’s updated privacy framework came into force last May. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)’s annual report, published today, covers the…

Much-lauded privacy laws risk being undermined as compliance is outsourced to tech vendors and “toothless trainings, audits and paper trails” are confused for genuine protections, a New York Law School professor has said. In a paper in the Washington Law Review, published online last week, Ari Ezra Waldman argued that recently…

Following Marriott’s data breach, FTC regulations required the hotel chain to reach out to its entire email list of customers, informing them of a potential leak of their personal information. Outside the obvious negative impact (loss of customers and brand trust), a breach also results in significant marketing expenses (the company must rebuild…