CDP Institute

Of 1,000 people in the US and UK, 82% reported they maintain moderate data privacy.  But in practice 83% are somewhat comfortable sharing biometric data and 64% say they would consider trading data for more personalization and convenience.

Emergency U.S. legislation proposed for healthcare privacy protection Looking to safeguard data not protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate reintroduced the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act that was first proposed last spring. It is meant to address security issues related to COVID-19 response.

In a clear demonstration of how difficult it can be for consumers to exercise their privacy rights, Consumer Reports found that even trained agents could not get many requests done successfully. Utilizing California's "authorized agent" provision, 124 Consumer Reports agents reached out to 21 companies, including Airbnb, Amazon, Comcast, Home Depot and Starbucks to use Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) and other company privacy preference mechanisms to make account changes.

Epsilon to pay $150M in settlement with U.S. Department of Justice As part of a remediation agreement, Epsilon will pay a total of $150M including $127.5M in compensation victims of fraud schemes resulting from sale of Epsilon data. The company had used data modeling to build and sell lists of customers, many elderly, deemed most likely to respond to marketing solicitation.

The company disputes the charges but Canada’s privacy watchdog plans to proceed with actions if Clearview doesn’t cease collecting biometric data on citizens and delete all previously collected.

Company offers a full suite of privacy tools and is also working with the Mayo Clinic to train algorithms on encrypted data to effect compliance and legal processing around shared data.

Warning that use of facial recognition technology poses a risk to individual privacy and can negatively affect human dignity and rights, the Council specified that it should only be employed on an appropriate legal basis. They said it should not be used in uncontrolled environments; in ways that may promote racial, sexual or religious discrimination; or to determine personality traits, sentiments, or personal mental health.

Records of 1.6M exposed, including Social Security numbers and banking data.