Privacy

Privacy and everything it entails is not easy to explain. Under the hood, it’s driven by complex mathematics and code. However, in practice, app privacy starts with how apps are designed. Some are designed to collect information about you, and others aren’t. With Apple’s update to its privacy page today, the company…

Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images Alice Liogier wants to slap a price on her data. The 23-year-old graduate student from Paris is researching the commercial use of personal information in the age of big data and she’s reached a controversial conclusion: If people really do own their data, then they should be…

According to the results of a new survey, 74 percent of organizations say that since GDPR was introduced in 2018 it has had a beneficial impact on consumer trust, and 73 percent claim it has boosted their data security. The study from Check Point questioned 1,000 CTOs, CIOs, IT and security managers…

On November 1st of last year, businesses became subject to new mandatory breach reporting regulations under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Organizations subject to PIPEDA are required to report to our office any breaches of security safeguards involving personal information…

January 21, 22, 2020 Effectively Navigate Canada’s Advertising & Marketing Law Landscape The advertising and marketing landscape is constantly in flux and navigating it can be complex. The 26th Annual Advertising & Marketing Law conference is the place to be to engage with a distinguished faculty of legal practitioners, in-house counsel and…

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced today a new bill that introduces sweeping privacy protections for Americans’ private information. Named the Mind Your Own Business Act (MYOBA), the bill includes clauses that will give Americans “an easy, one-click way to stop companies from selling or sharing their personal information” and grants consumers…

Marketers and publishers are less than three months away from dealing with a new law that could have the largest impact on digital advertising since the introduction of the iPhone. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, takes effect Jan. 1, bringing a host of new regulations to the nation’s largest…

California proposed regulations on Thursday to dictate how the state will enforce its tough, new privacy law. The law, known as the California Consumer Privacy Act, gives consumers more control over how companies collect and manage their personal data. It goes into effect on Jan. 1.  The CCPA, seen as establishing the most stringent…

Edward Snowden ‘If internet traffic is unencrypted, any government, company, or criminal that happens to notice it can – and, in fact, does – steal a copy of it, secretly recording your information for ever.’ Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters In every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the…

While conventional marketing thinking says that customers prefer personalized marketing experiences and are willing to share more personal data to get that, new research shows that they may not.  In a survey of 1,100 US internet users, the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) found that 93% of respondents said they would be willing…