CDP Institute

Potentially at stake: 1) an end to walled garden advertising, 2) new restrictions on tracking health data, and 3) a crackdown on collection of children’s data.

If you’re one of Google’s 150 million users and part of the 90% who have ignored their admonitions to use two-factor identification, the game will soon be up when Google turns it on by default. Google will also require more than 2 million YouTube creators to turn on two-factor authentication for their channels.

When choosing a new data provider, privacy (48%) ranks 4th in importance to major US brands, after data quality (64%), reputation (60%), and connectivity to provider (53%), according to a new Stirista study.  Is that glass half empty or half full?

The shocking reveal of tens of thousands of Facebook documents, including research that they knew their products could harm young people, has prompted Facebook to announce plans for “features” for teens and for parents to control privacy. This includes, 1) encouraging teens to take breaks from using Instagram, 2) “nudging” teens not to look at content not conducive to their well-being, and 3) instituting (optional) controls for adults to use to supervise teens online. Umm…thinking here that a teen advisory panel might be in order to effect real change.

The SaaS system, currently in beta, enables engineers to create anonymized, synthetic data sets.

The funds will be used for privacy machine learning at Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs).

The initiative is intended to safeguard individual rights, particularly in the face of government requests for data that can come without customer knowledge. The principles specify that governments should engage customers first, address conflicts of law and support cross-border data flow; customers have right to notification, and cloud providers have the right to protect customer interests.

Members of the Global Encryption Coalition were among a large group that sent an Open Letter to Belgian Ministers requesting the maintain privacy protection for citizens against “back-door-access” to end-to-end encrypted data. The concern is that by allowing 3rd party access to law enforcement to access data of specific users, they would have access to the full data set weakening the system.

Hong Kong’s new law against doxxing (allowing public release of information identifying an individual) has raised concern from diverse groups. Human rights advocates fear it can be used to crack down on dissent and tech companies worry it may hinder business operations. The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance amendment bill gives Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner very broad powers and extra-territorial scope, including the ability to force internet providers to cease operations and it comes with as high penalty as a HK$1 million fine and five years in jail.

Cyberattacks have been rising this year, and a new Arctic Wolf survey of more than 1,400 IT leaders at enterprise organizations reveals just how much. Thirty-two percent of organizations experienced a breach that exceeded six figures; 61% of business owners admitted to concealing a breach; and 74% of executives believe their security teams lack capacity and expertise needed.

Recommendation engine GetApp’s Data Security Report found that across US industries, phishing emails tripled in the last 2 years, ransomware attacks increased 25% since last year, and that rampant reuse of passwords is strongly associated with higher incidences of security breaches.

Digital security company Aura released results of a survey conducted with The Harris Poll of more than 2,000 U.S. adults which found 87% view cyber warfare as a top threat to the next generation, surpassing global warning and this or another pandemic. Further, only healthcare providers were trusted by more than half to protect against cybercrime, with retailers and online providers were only trusted by 25%, and government by 29%.