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Archive for September, 2022

Categories : CDPI Privacy Newsletter
Dates : September 2022

CCPA employee & B2B data-sharing exemption about to end

September 13, 2022
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) had allowed B2B enterprise-level firms a grace period during which much data shared by employees and data distributed between b-to-b contacts was exempt from the type of privacy requirements mandatory with consumer data. But that exemption will end on January 1, 2023 at which point vendors, partners and employees will have the right to access and request to delete information collected from relationships with b-to-b businesses they work with.
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Biden wants Congress to remove liability shield for big tech

September 13, 2022
In what would be a major change across the Internet, the White House wants Congress to overhaul Section 230 and to rein in big tech. The law, which has been challenged by Democrats and Republicans for different reasons - in the first case wanting to protect against extremist content, hate speech and misinformation; and in the second to disallow censorship of conservative viewpoints – protects social media and online content providers from liability for content.
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IT’S THE LAW (09/13/2022)

September 13, 2022
Switzerland’s Federal Council has issued orders that revise ordinances in its Data Protection Act to reflect technical advances, bolster individual rights and provide more transparency in data handling. The intent is to ensure compatibility with EU laws and guarantee the country’s laws are viewed as adequate and in line with what other countries need for business and cross-border data transfer. The new Data Protection Ordinances (OPDo) and Data Protection Certifications (OCPD) will take effect on September 1, 2023.
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Misinformation a big concern to ad execs

September 13, 2022
Consensus from advertisers, according to an Integral Ad Science (IAS) survey, is that companies should not mess around when it comes to finding, quickly fixing, and guarding against misinformation. This is because their customers won’t buy brands they don’t trust. In fact, 65% of consumers report they’re unlikely to purchase from a brand that advertises misinformation, 73% feel unfavorably toward brands they associate with misinformation, and 80% agree that misinformation is a serious digital media problem.
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Children’s Privacy: Skips a generation?! Majority of teens value online safety over free speech according to PEW

September 13, 2022
Interesting findings from Pew Research Center’s survey which found 62% of teens 13-17, believe it’s more important for people to feel welcome and safe online, than it is to be able to freely speak their minds. The numbers contrasted with the 18-29 age group, where 57% of adults preferred free speech. In fact, teens were found to be more closely aligned with a much older generation, age 65+, where 58% would choose feeling welcome and safe – though even they came in slightly below the teens. Not surprising when you... Read More >
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In Brief: Broadband organizations pull a longstanding lawsuit that was going to challenge Maine’s privacy law, which requires obtaining explicit user consent before using data for ad targeting

September 13, 2022
The lawsuit objection was claiming that broadband companies were being treated differently than other companies, but the groups since decided that since this issue is not a factor in new state or proposed federal laws, they’ll focus advocacy efforts elsewhere.
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Eight hundred million facial records left exposed by Chinese company, Xinai

September 6, 2022
A mass data breach that’s considered the second largest known after a one billion record breach in China earlier this summer, has been revealed also in China. In this case, human error at the Hangzhou tech company Xinai Electronics inadvertently exposed facial data of 800 million people. Additionally, the company’s database ties to its cloud-based vehicle license plate recognition system. Xinai’s exposed data was not password protected and was found easily available on the web, according to the data researcher who discovered it.
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Fog Data Science found selling illegal data of 250M Americans to police and others

September 6, 2022
Public records acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) from state and local US law enforcement agencies reveal Fog Data Science is enabling surveillance of hundreds of millions of people by collecting billions of data points captured from common phone apps and then selling it illegally – bypassing the need for buyers to obtain a search warrant. The company collects and tracks geolocation data and can trace activity over months and years. This harkens back to a 2015 class action that occurred when Carrier IQ, a now defunct company, was found tracking keystrokes belonging to millions of people, then selling the data to third parties in violation of multiple laws.
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IT’S THE LAW (09/06/2022)

September 6, 2022
Eureka!! California breaks the log jam and forges ahead with privacy legislation – in the US, and for kids! Meet the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (ADCA). Modeled on the UK’s Age-Appropriate Design Code, this game-changer now awaiting the governor’s signature, will go much farther than the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protecting teens and children by default. Specifically, online sites deemed likely to access youth data will not be allowed to share that data unless they can prove: 1) it is necessary to do so to provide a specific service, or 2) that doing so is in the young person’s best interest. Further, businesses will in most cases be required to implement the most privacy-protective settings by default, and there’s no provision built in for parents or kids to opt-out via consent.
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