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Citing the need to be able to decrypt information for national security and use in law enforcement to fight crime and protect vulnerable parts of the population; the Five Eyes Alliance -the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand along with India and Japan issued a statement appealing for embedded safeguards to access data. This follows similar appeals to the Tech Industry from Five Eyes in 2018 and 2019.

The 2018 breach penalty has been reduced from £184M to £20M.

Goal is to expedite CCPA “Do Not Sell” privacy requests.

The company is accused of having Amazon Connect, a part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), collect and harvest “voiceprint” data, which can identify and authenticate callers by voice. The plaintiff, who are based in Illinois, claim their telephone calls were intercepted and sounds stored without their consent.

IAB Europe pushes back against Belgian DPA assessment IAB Europe has issued a response to last week’s assessment by the Belgian DPA saying they were not in compliance with the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). TCF was designed to ensure digital ad companies meet GDPR requirements.

An ICO audit found widespread data protection failings including breach risk.

France has a new law to protect “kid influencers.” This extends safeguards already granted to child performers and models to young people, up to age 16, who become celebrities online and on social media. It includes protection against extortion and guarantees the “right to be forgotten.”

Sourcepoint ups the game acquiring RedBud  Intent on becoming the most “fully-featured” privacy, compliance and consent platform, Sourcepoint has acquired Redbud, including its DIAGNOSE scanning and analytics tool.This will give publishers visibility into hidden activities on properties, including from third parties. It also reveals privacy vulnerabilities and ensures media spend is compliant and consumer privacy-focused.

Police typically need a warrant to obtain data on your search history, but recent court documents for an arson case in Florida revealed Google provided the police with IP addresses of people who had searched the victim’s address, rather than searching by a single individual. This “keyword warrant” tactic is being used more widely and is likely unconstitutional.

BIGID and IAPP issue global report: The State of Data Rights More than 475 privacy executives from around the world participated in the BIGID/IAPP survey released today. More than half said they plan to invest in data discovery. Nearly 60% in financial services are prioritizing data discovery, inventory and mapping. And, the report said, more U.S. companies plan to invest in data rights management than those in the rest of the world.

Three days after Brazil’s law was enacted, a company holding 500,000 records was sued.

Publicis Sapient’s survey of 5,000 people from Great Britain, France, Germany, Australia and the United States revealed that 61% know little or nothing about how companies use their data – and they worry this can be harmful. The survey also found a disparity between those who are more educated, younger and tech savvy, in their degree of mistrust. Results indicated significant uncertainty and dissatisfaction with companies in multiple categories.