CDP Institute

By using data categorization, discovery & redaction, and deduplication techniques, this addresses one of the most difficult tasks in responding to Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR).

Dedicated to providing corporations with company-wide data access control to manage regulation compliance, Immuta plans to focus on the rising demand for centralized, scalable control across cloud data sets.

Seers Offers Easy-to-Use Cookie Consent

As part of a new set of privacy features, Android introduces Private Compute Core, a partition within the operating system that will protect the privacy of machine-learned data, while still allowing the data to be accessed for system-level functions. Specifically, audio and language processing will remain with each device rather than making it available to the network.

The country’s communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it intends to fine, and possibly slow down the company’s traffic, if it doesn’t comply. This is part of a larger push to rein in western Big Tech.

A large majority of people don’t want their data collected or shared without consent, according to a new survey from Invisibly. Data privacy is important to them (68%), they don’t like getting targeted ads online (76%), and even more women (87%) than men (76%) would support ad changes that prevent this.

A new report looks at case filings involving the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) private right of action provision, which is used when a business is deemed to have failed to implement security practices to sufficiently protect personal information from disclosure or theft. As of March, less than a year after the law began to be enforced, 83 actions had been filed, more than half of which were against the same 11 defendants. 83% of those filed were data breach claims, and 61% of cases filed unfair competition law (UCL),... Read More >

This reflects the pressure companies are facing on use of this technology, which has been shown to deliver inconsistent results in accurately identifying individuals, particularly from Black and Brown communities.

WhatsApp, which planned to mandate users agree by May 15th to a new privacy policy or lose access to service, faced new opposition this week. India asked for proof of sufficient protection for its citizens. Brazil delayed full enforcement of WhatApp’s policy pending determination of compliance with their LGPD law. Turkey had conflicting reports about whether WhatsApp would apply the new update now. And, Germany earlier this month ordered Faceook to stop processing WhatsApp user data.

Germany has passed a new Data Protection Act to unify the country’s privacy provisions from their Telecommunications Act and Telemedia Act and bring them in line with GDPR. The new law, known by its acronym TTDSG, is intended to make the legal situation in the country clearer and more consistent, though some critics feel its provisions on personalized data are too loose.

Company could be forced to halt transfer of EU user information to its servers.

An ethical framework and best practice guide for the data and marketing industries.