CDP Institute

Digital publishers know privacy compliance is crucial to avoid fines instituted by GDPR for content management. But, according to a survey conducted by Digiday in December, many are working with vendors who are not compliant, despite IAB Europe’s Global Vendor List (GVL) of 600 vetted providers.

The Mobile Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) can see your future – no need to navigate, steer, or worry about your privacy. MOBI, which has just released a new set of privacy-sensitive data sharing standards, lays out how this can work for them and for you.

Moscow’s plan to install 5,000 facial recognition cameras at metro turnstiles has set off privacy and human rights alarms that they will be used for surveillance as well as expedited payment for transport. Unfortunately, this is not a problem confined to Moscow given how many cameras are in world cities already.

Privicera’s platform helps companies decide how to leverage data by showing who accesses their data and how it is being used. Customers can also set and enforce policies to control access or encrypt data. DataGrail, the privacy-as-a-service company, helps with compliance by integrating with more than 100 applications, including Salesforce, Adobe and Oracle, and helps customers understand requirements of complex privacy regulations. Read More – Privacera Read More – DataGrail

Neustar’s new TRUSTID Decisions fills outreach gap The new decisioning solutions suite gives client outreach systems predictive model scores that identify how and when to best reach contacts. The system works using Neustar and customer-provided data to help ensure companies know who, when and how they can reach customers for optimal results – without needing to go through an IT department,  customer contact center, or analytics resources.

This continues Ping’s work to promote an open, standards-based approach to managing data. Recent work has included managing digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates.

Effective immediately, OneTrust has incorporated DocuVision’s data redaction capabilities into its own. The combined technology, OneTrust Data Redaction, will enable companies to find, redact and protect sensitive data in documents and emails.

Massachusetts’ new law balances police needs to identify unknown persons with minimizing errors inherent in facial recognition technology.  The law allows officers access to information, but only after getting a judge’s permission and having the search run via the state police, FBI, or motor vehicle department. The hope is this will produce more accurate results than allowing officers to search for photo matches via facial recognition apps they select on their own.

Inspectors, surveyors and others who take photos with mobile devices to do their work now have a new tool that can ensure they don’t capture and keep facial images and other objects of personally identifiable information. Fulcrum’s no-code mobile app platform can delete or obscure those objects in photos using AI, rather than requiring manual de-identification.

In what the Illinois judge called “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy,” Facebook has to pay for photo-tagging, collecting and storing people’s biometric data in violation of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Facebook will also have to turn off its face-recognition settings (but only for Illinois residents!). We’ll soon see how other states’ biometric laws evolve.

TikTok to pay $92M to settle data harvesting lawsuits  TikTok will pay $92M to settle more than 20 federal lawsuits. Most of the suits were filed on behalf of minors from ages 6 and up. Data, which included facial recognition information that TikTok harvested, was reported shared with third parties including in China.

No Sidewalk data for you, Google & Portland!  For the second time in two years, Sidewalk Labs (owned by the same company as Google) failed to get a permission to design a digital “Smart City,” due to concerns about how citizen data it collected would be used. Portland pulled the project due to concerns about lack of transparency, the same reason Toronto cited when they stopped working with Sidewalk Labs on what was intended to also be an experiment in establishing an urban data trust. Read More – Portland Read More – Toronto