CDP Institute

Market growth in APAC and globally is the driver for the latest investment in OneTrust, the industry leader in privacy, security and governance technology. More than 8,000 companies worldwide use OneTrust, including more than half the Fortune 500.

New report says federal and local law enforcement amass tens of thousands of pages of public records via Clearview, and that it is used by some without training or oversight.

...and adds indoor locator and sleep monitoring features (privacy optional)

A cyber crime intelligence firm discovered that a mass of personal data from a Facebook breach in 2019 has been published online, exposing more than half a billion people. Information includes names, phone numbers, email addresses, biographical information and location data. While Facebook can’t do anything about the data reveal, it could alert users, since they are now easy targets for scams and identity theft.

Hosted daily ad auctions allow advertisers, political campaigns and many others to bid & send digital ads. These millisecond bidding auctions also provide data to winners plus all other participants, and the claimants say it violates Google’s privacy claims. A putative class action suit is designed to be on behalf of known and as yet unknown victims.

DataGrail’s privacy trends study of millions of California consumers after one year under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) shows that while individuals are concerned about how their information is used, barely one in ten thousand have so far exercised their rights. Within that group, Do Not Sell is the leading (63/million) type of request.

The Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), due to go into effect this May in Utah, is unusual because it is designed to protect consumer data collected by genetic testing companies. Historically, laws related to genetic testing focused on how genetic data is collected, shared or used, whereas GIPA will focus on corporate responsibility with regard to notice, data use, data security and individual rights.

Google disagrees with findings.