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The international operation, which received $22 million in Bitcoin since 2015, had an elaborate hidden network working under false names that took years to trace and take down.

Bearing gifts unlike never before – including a willingness to share data with sellers and boost rival products, Amazon is hoping to persuade EU regulators not to enact a very large fine, possibly as high as 10% of global turnover.

Two years in the making, IAB’s GPP is now available. It has been designed to help businesses, including advertisers, publishers, and technology vendors, comply with the EU’s TCF and US CCPA legislation across digital media channels. The intent is to simplify transparency for consumers via managing signals they receive.

While not final, a draft from California’s Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) indicates what CPRA businesses should prepare for. Rules include a requirement to honor global opt-out requests,  clarification of language when choices are given, consumer notification of third-party collection and information handling, consumer rights to limit use of sensitive information, and having hyperlinks guide consumers directly to applicable areas of privacy policies for transparency and ease-of-use. 

Switzerland is under pressure from the UN to change long-standing bank secrecy laws and allow its Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) access to bank accounts considered a security risk. This follows a February Credit Suisse data leak, which showed criminals & human rights abusers were using bank services there. The UN says the country’s Article 47, which allows jailing or fining whistleblowers for revealing secret bank data, is in violation of human rights agreements Switzerland has signed.

With a $5 million grant in hand from the Craig Newmark (Craigslist founder) Philanthropies, Consumer Reports plans to give consumers tools they need to gird against cyber threats – and to advocate for the same from business and government. This is part of a much larger initiative by the charity to build civic infrastructure and policy frameworks.

A program designed to curb youth violence and curtail gang activity is proving controversial for London’s Metropolitan police. Project Alpha, which is funded by the Home Office, has claimed it consulted with a range of youth organizations before launching its initiative to monitor social media favored by youth for warning signs of threats. But several of the organizations listed as being contacted for consultation have said they had never been formally approached and questions have been raised about whether racial profiling of teens has taken place.

Thanks to its recent acquisition of Electriq Marketing, DRINKS will now provide at-home alcohol delivery with full regulatory compliance.

CTARS, the cloud-based system used for out-of-home care service, has raised concerns on behalf of individuals because it won’t release information on whose data was compromised, citing privacy reasons.