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Archive for January, 2022

Categories : CDPI Privacy Newsletter
Dates : January 2022

District of Columbia & 3 US states sue Google over location tracking

January 25, 2022
A lawsuit filed by state attorneys general in Texas, Indiana, Washington State, and the District of Columbia claims Google “systematically” deceived consumers about how their locations are tracked and used. In fact, consumers can’t opt out of having their location tracked – and don’t realize how knowing their location at all times is a massive source of income for Google’s digital ad business which last year alone netted the company $150 billion.
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Children’s Privacy: Private equity firm now has data on tens of millions of US kids – for predictive analytics use

January 18, 2022
Vista Equity Partners has spent six years buying controlling shares of big-name ed software companies, including PowerSchool (45M names, including from Naviance), Ellucian (26M names) and EAB, which works with 2,500 educational institutions. Together they cover K-college level students’ data which can be parsed to predict likely success rates and risk factors; assess family wealth; and inform on religion, health, disciplinary actions, and grades. Parents and student privacy groups are voicing concerns about what is being done with all that data and exploring what options they have to engage via... Read More >
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