Apple Puts the Clamps on User Tracking…and Facebook’s Not Happy Forthcoming new privacy features for the iPhone and iPad will make life harder for advertisers seeking to track and build profiles on users of Apple mobile devices. According to Apple, an update to the company’s mobile operating system, iOS 14, will alert users
WhatsApp Policy Backlash Highlights User Confusion and Mistrust over Privacy Privacy The recent WhatsApp terms and privacy policy update pop-up (pictured above) has been negatively received by its users and zeroes in on some disturbing aspects of today’s privacy landscape. 1) There’s Always Been Sharing of Personal Data Among Companies Many users
How Secure is Your Data?: Repeated Data Breaches by Major Companies—Facebook, Equifax, Citigroup, AOL Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me…eight times? Seriously? Data breaches are a serious problem, and they are getting worse. As we move more and more of our lives online, especially now with the pandemic, chances
5 BILLION DOLLAR GOOGLE INCOGNITO CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT Are you a Google Chrome user? Have you browsed the internet using incognito mode or Google’s private browsing setting? Does the screenshot below look familiar to you? If so,
An Industry in the Shadows: Data Brokers You don’t know them, but they definitely know you. It is a $200 billion industry yet most people don’t know that it exists. Welcome to the world of data brokers. Because these companies have no direct interaction with consumers, there is no
DATA PRIVACY LEGISLATION UPDATE The Background: Europe compared to the United States The first comprehensive online data privacy law emerged from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”
THE RECENT FUROR OVER TIKTOK In recent weeks, TikTok has been in the news repeatedly. This blog post helps explain why. August 1, 2020 Update: The New York Times reported that ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, has offered to sell its United States operations in response to the Trump
THE YAHOO DATA BREACH SETTLEMENT IS NOW CLOSED An Update on the Yahoo Data Breach Settlement On July 21, 2020, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh signed off on the $117.5 million settlement, bringing the massive multidistrict litigation to an end. Under the approved deal, Yahoo will provide the estimated 194
Facial Recognition: Is This The End of Privacy? Every day, we see reminders of how our privacy rights are being challenged. Recently, one stood out: Clearview AI, a small U.S.-based company enshrouded in secrecy, has created a facial recognition tool by scraping photos and other data from multiple websites including
This Week in Data 101: What's a MID? What’s a MID? Mediators of Individual Data, Data Unions, and Data Dignity The digital transformation of our economy in the 21st century has brought with it some rather daunting challenges. The role of the individual in an increasingly complex tech-driven world is being
What is your data worth? $1139.33A conservative estimate * of the lifetime value of a North American Facebook user. The value of one person’s data to Facebook. A number that has gone up every year for 9 years straight and shows no sign of stopping. $0Your monthly Facebook
